419 scam: Sec adaugo Obi <sec_adaugo_obi@yahoo.com.ph> CONTACT: IFDRC

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "international remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "charles soludo" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "certified bank draft" (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- ifdrc_ng_gov@legislator.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sec adaugo Obi <sec_adaugo_obi@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: sec_adaugo@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:58:53 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: CONTACT: IFDRC

Attention:My Honorable Contractor

I am Mrs. Rose Adaugo Obi I have been working in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as the confidential Secretary to the Governor since 2001. I worked under Prof. Charles Soludo and at present working with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. I came to know you because as the secretary, I type most of the documents you have been receiving from both the old and the new CBN Governor. Just yesterday again, I was given a document to prepare which is meant to stop your payment as a result of your non compliance with tax regulations. This order emanated from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation- Chief Anyim Pius Anyim. I have purposely delayed this documentation because I want you to act fast to stop it.

This document when endorsed by the Minister of Finance and CBN Governor- Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, means that you can never have your FUNDS again and how it would be shared, you will not know. My advice is that you wake up now and stop them before any damage is done. I shall do my best to assist you in every way possible. You can not afford to miss this opportunity.

This secret is the actual reason why you have not received your over-due fund from the Central Bank of Nigeria. I trust that you will treat this matter with absolute maturity and confidentiality to prevent me from being harmed or victimized. There is a grand conspiracy by a group of officials from the top echelon of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Presidency and other Ministries against you. Their primary aim is to frustrate you and divert your fund to an account they opened in the name of their foreign collaborator known as Mr. Charles L. Searls from the USA. This account is a special coded account that can not be easily traced. The name of the Bank is Chang Hwa Commercial Bank, Hong Kong Branch.

They have succeeded in diverting funds belonging to Mr. Berry F. Garner of the USA, Mr. Toshiaki Furuta of Japan to an account belonging to Mr. John Tsai who confirmed the funds in the coded account just last month. There was a great jubilation while I was weeping for these contractors. This is the reason why I am contacting you because I would not like you to experience the same loss.

You may not understand their tactics anyway. First, they get you confused by using different names and offices with different telephone numbers. By this, you can no long tell who is who as a lot of them can claim to be either the CBN Governor or Director, International Remittance Department etc. This criminal group also demand endless fees and charges from creditors in order to frustrate them to abandon their funds while thinking that it will never come.

The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has mandated the Central Bank of Nigeria to release your fund this quarter. This is the reason why I am contacting you because the same group has already started their evil plans and if they succeed your fund will be gone and gone forever. One of their methods now is offering to make a payment through CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT and ATM CARD just to buy time while they are busy plotting their fraud against you. Sometimes they refer their victims to non -existent banks using their collaborators to mislead them.

Now, for you not to be a victim of this ugly fraud, you are advised to contact the Agency and the official directly in- charge of foreign payments be rest assured that your problems will be over. Please do not be carried away by the numerous mails and calls you receive nor the names they bear and position they claim.

Try and make your contact thus: The Chairman, Independent Foreign Debt Reconciliation Commission-IFDRC, now sitting in London.

Attention: Mr.Donald Ifejika

E-mail: ifdrc_ng_gov@legislator.com

Please contact him by giving your full names, address, telephone, fax, sum, contract number (if any) and your bank details.

Please beware of impostors who may be contacting you as CBN Governors, Senate President and other high ranking government officials. Ignore them and heed my advice and act on it immediately.

Till I hear from you.

Yours sincerely,

MRS. Rose Adaugo Obi

SECRETARY TO CBN GOVERNOR

MALLAM SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI

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