419 scam: "Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency"<info@scdea.police.uk> Your Compensation Funds

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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:
- "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
- "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447035926679 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <scdea@live.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:43:15 -0800
Subject: Your Compensation Funds

SCOTTISH CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (SCDEA),
Osprey House, Inchinnan Road, Paisley,
PA3 2RE, Scotland.
Tel:+447035926679

Dear Beneficiary,

Please read this e-mail carefully and get back to us immediately for your compensation payment.

Through the use of SCOTTISH CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY secure communications network, criminal databases and other resources, the (SCDEA) continues to advance its mission to respond to requests for assistance from all over the world. On a daily basis, the SCDEA coordinates and transmits requests for criminal investigative and humanitarian assistance.

Following this year's (2012) review of the global financial matters and just concluded investigations by the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA), INTERPOL, FBI in conjunction with the ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION and all the African Crime fighter leaders have come together to inform the world what is going on now.

Our duties is to make sure we stop internet scam and money laundering. As for today we have put a lot of fraudsters in jail. we go all over Africa to pick this thieves/internet rats. We have over 8,273 of them in our jails round Africa and we are still looking for more. We are aware that a lot of foreigners out there have been deceived and lost their hard earn money to these fraudsters after promising them percentages in their letters/e-mails for their impending help to move funds out Africa including fake lottery winning notification and at the end of the day, they will collect thousands of dollars from you without a successful end.

Please, watch the video links below as some of these fraudsters were arrested in Nigeria:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISMgGdaGOJM

It was agreed that to retain the good image of Nigeria and the rest of Africa countries, all the victims who lost his/her hard earn money to these faceless thieves will be compensated with just US$25,000.00 (Twenty five thousands United Stated Dollars only). This we assume will help you to start a new life.

To that effect, we are sending you this e-mail because your contact details were given to us as one of the victims. But MR. JOHN M. WILLIAM presented an Authorization Letter for change of your data that your are died one month ago. After the investigations however,it was revealed that there are some dubius Banks and Government Officials in Nigeria and the rest of Africa countries who are collaborating with some Foreigners to make these changes illegally without the knowledge of the Bona-fide Benefactors and one traced to your own change is this MR. JOHN M. WILLIAM of United States of America, who said you are dead, He have also forwarded this Name and Address below as the new Address that will receive this money.

Name: MR. CHARLES WILLIAM ROME
Address: 139 Chelmsford DR Aurora, Ohio 44202, United States
TEL:- 1-330-562-5815

But we wanted to confirm if actually this is true and hence decided to write to your email address which after 7 days from now and there is no response, We will then know that you are dead indeed and go on with the Compensation payment of US$25,000.00 to him.

If proved otherwise by you that you are not dead, please furnish us with all the related Benefactors particulars as stated below:-

1. YOUR FULL NAME
2. YOUR AGE
3. GENDER:
4. HOUSE OR OFFICE ADDRESS (P.O BOX NOT ACCEPTABLE),
5. YOUR PHONE NUMBER(S)
6. COUNTRY:

These details from you will help to assist us reach a conclusion that you are not dead. Anything contrary to this claim will help us stop the payment of your compensation fund to him. Since the SCDEA AND INTERPOL have stepped into this matter be rest assured that you are safe as it is our duty to protect and serve the citizens of United Kingdom and United States of America in particular and the rest of the world in general.

IMPORTANT: UNDER PENALTY OF LAW, THE INFORMATION YOU SUBMITTED TO US CORRECTLY IDENTIFY YOU AS THE RECIPIENT OF THIS PAYMENT; NO OTHER LIVING PERSON OR ENTITY IS ENTITLED TO ANY PART OF THIS PAYMENT; IT IS A VIOLATION OF LAW FOR ANY PERSON TO INTENTIONALLY OR KNOWINGLY FILLING FOR DOUBLE CLAIMING OR AID ANOTHER PERSON IN CLAIMING THE SAME FUND, BY MEANS OF FRAUD OR DECEIT. BE WARNED.

We await your prompt response.

Regards,
Mr. Alan Rowland
Chief Superintendent

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