419 scam: "NIB"<kscompras@kschapelins.com.br> RE: Urgent Attention Required

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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:
- "affidavit of claim" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
- "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
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.
- kinowutwen@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "NIB" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nib.ghana@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:13:54 +0100
Subject: RE: Urgent Attention Required

Date: 22/01/2013

Ref: IPB/264/CDN/NIB-X12

Attn: Beneficiary,

As you have been adequately informed in my previous email to you dated 18/05/2012, of your active online account registered on your behalf by Dipl. Kiagbodo Edwin Clark. I also sent you a detailed mail requesting if we are permitted to give the depositor your Online Account details. More so, I further outlined investment plans for you which we considered profitable with low risk guaranteed, your inability to respond to any of my emails was totally strange and call for suspicion.

My reason for writing this email to you is to inquire from you if you authorized Mr. Angelina Donald Tello, Mr. Perrenoud P. Philippe and Dipl: Kiagbodo Edwin Clark to make claim on your fund presently in an Online Account with this institution (National Investment Bank Ghana Ltd).

Today at about 9.am Central African time, Mr. Angelina Donald Tello and co was in my office saying that you authorized them to make claim on your fund, I initially instructed for the release of the fund to them based on the fact that the depositor was with them and secondly because they came with some vital documents covering the fund, but on cross-checking our deposit agreement with the depositor, I discovered that the details they presented was a different Letter of recognition, contact address of new recipient etc, this made us to suspect them, this is a very serious matter in the bank.

In accordance with our operational / banking ethics, I asked them to present a power of attorney signed by you, informing National Investment Bank of the change in recipient details, this they could not produce immediately; at that moment, I had no option rather than to schedule them to come back in five (5) working days to enable me contact you again to verify how genuine they are to you, though they promised to provide the power of attorney on their next visit.

I am contacting you to ascertain the true position of what I have just relayed to you in other to avoid transferring this fund into a wrong account, as we believed that our previous correspondence to you were intercepted due to the fact that the depositor had requested on severally occasions to retrieve your email account he provided to us at first.

Find below the account details they presented for the wire.

Bank of America
Name on A/C: Angelina Donald Tello
P.O. Box 25119 Tampa, FL 33622 U.S.A.
A/C No. 229027579458
ABA: 026009593
Swift Code: BOFAUS3N

Could you please confirm this to us as soon as you can before we start taking legal action, but if they are from you, kindly give them the power of attorney to that effect.. I will not hesitate to give you copies of their identification including our deposit slip we issued to him after making the deposit and an affidavit of claim they presented.

Your swift response to this mail will be highly recognized.

Sincerely,

Mr. Kingsley Owusu-Tweneboah.
Director: Private Banking Sector. NIB
Email: kinowutwen@yahoo.com.hk

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