419 scam: "Office of the President"<info@presidency.com> Payment Plan / Procedure

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "meet the diplomat" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Office of the President" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <datadoc75@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 02:28:04 +0100
Subject: Payment Plan / Procedure

Dear

The Federal Government of Nigeria resolved on the eve of our 51st Independence to pay all outstanding debts through recovered looted funds from former government officials and ex bank executives.

These recovered funds are all in cash with a high tech security vault in UK, you can find some of the cases on the following websites:

http://www.nigeriancuriosity.com/2010/02/britain-to-return-looted-millions-to.html

http://www.africaundisguised.com/newsportal/story/uk-banks-accept-stolen-money-nigeria-hsbc-barclays-natwest-royal-bank-scotland

http://elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=706:the-united-kingdom-nigeria-and-money-laundering-part-1&catid=52:daniel-elombah&Itemid=73

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7484022.stm

http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/23133/1/Banks-EFCC-hires-10-forensic-experts-to-trace-N1trillion-looted-funds/Page1.html

This is to confirm to you that we are very serious at this point in making sure you have all you money paid to you.

You must have dealt with so many people in the past, faceless people on the phone claiming to be this and that and nothing happened. You have also had issues when a bank is introduced as the paying bank, at the end nothing happened. You have also had situation where a cash delivery of ATM was introduced, at the end, nothing happened.

We are paying you in UK, where you have to meet the diplomat whom the government will assign to you that will get you through in London for your payment. In this case, you will see things for yourself; you will walk into any bank in UK, open account, deposit your money and control it. We are paying through recovered looted funds in UK, if you cannot travel to UK, you can appoint a mandate who is in UK to represent you which you have to write a letter of authority and present his/her identification.

At this point, I will like you to understand the fact that we took this measure so that you will be satisfied and receive your funds. Probably it has been on emails, phone calls and fax which are not basis of knowing who is at the other end, so you have to make plans to UK or have someone in UK that will represent you. The earlier you confirm dates of arrival the better to enable us get your allocation.

Thanks
Dr. Aliero Ahmed
Presidency

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