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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:
- "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. )
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- 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.
- 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.
- akintolawilliamc@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Dr.ABIODU <fundcbn@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: akintolawilliamc@rocketmail.com
Date: 6 May 2012 01:06:34 +0700
Subject: REPLY
AKINTOLA WILLIAM $ CO CHARTERED ACCOUNTING FIRM..AUDITING,
DEBT RECOVERING,BENEFICIARY ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT,CLAIMS
AND FINANCIAL ADVISORY POLICIES.
We are the sole body by Central Bank of Nigeria and Federal Republic of Nigeria obliged to audit the defaulted Bank under 1979 Nigeria constitution defaulted act promulgation. during our audit the two Banks which could not meet with Central Bank regulations are INTERCONTINENTAL BANK P.L.C AND OCEANIC BANK P.L.C.
On the process of our auditing before the emerged of each of the Bank INTERCONTINENTAL BANK TO ACCESS BANK AND OCEANIC BANK TO ECO BANK.We discovered series of irregularities and different dormant individual account numbers.one of the individual account to focus is the formal Delta State Governor JAMES IBORI of Nigeria who has been jailed for 5 years on court count charges of money laundering in London.James Ibori has an account with Oceanic Bank which is mounted to ($150,000,000) u.s dollar.
This mentioned James Ibori account has not be disclosed to the Government Authority concern for not been transfered to the terrilorial wealth funds.As financial expert we decided to package the fund to our personal care.but James Ibori had a command on his Bank account which means the fund must be transfer to foreign Bank account.We are writing to any individuals or organizations with trustworthy character to forward his ID, international passport and phone number for quick transfer of the fund.the sharing ratio is 40% for the foreign partner and 60% for our firm.note you are to rely to this email(akintolawilliamc@rocketmail.com)
Best Regards,
Ahmed.
Chief Auditor.
+2347045698180
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