419 scam: "Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde"< carol@ttmelody.com.tw> Attention: Dear Beneficiary Your Payment Notification

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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:
- "transfer of your funds" (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)
- "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "dr. sanusi" (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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <williamsmills01@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 03:20:22 +0300
Subject: Attention: Dear Beneficiary Your Payment Notification

Attention: Dear beneficiary,

I have just received your email regarding the remittance and transfer of your funds worth the sum of $950,000.00.

I hereby want to inform you on the new update which has just came up in our office, after the meet held between the Federal Ministry of Finance and the management of Central Bank Of Nigeria consing all foreign payment we the board directors of Central Bank Of Nigeria has all agreed to cancel the transaction and have your fund converted into an ATM Master Card which will enable you make a withdrew of $5,000usd per day in any ATM machine location you wish to make your withdrew.

I personally want you to know that all the necessarily arrangement has been made to commerce with the conversion of your fund into an ATM Card and the delivery of your ATM Card delivered into your door step within 48hours after the
conversion of your fund into an ATM Card, we have decided to inform you before the processing commerce and we also aware that the thanks giving is going up soon in your country so we decided to make this an opportunity to you for your trouble's and hard time and inconvenience, we want to use this opportunity to compensate your hard times troubles minds.

Note: That the fund has already been converted into an ATM Card and we want you to know that we are trying to make sure that you did not pass any more trouble mind, and you have to take this so serious because the diplomat is very much ready now to commerce with the shipping of your ATM Master Card once we hear form you and be aware that your are going to payment for the shipping fee of your ATM Master Card which is just a little token amount of $145usd which i know is very affordable and can not be compared with the money inside your ATM Master Card which you are about to receive and i know if you have this ATM Master Card with you, you are going to be very happy about it because i know that the sum of $950,000.00.usd is not small money to joke or play with so you need to be very serious about this.

DISPATCH FEE: $30usd
YELLOW TAG: $20usd
VAT: $35usd
INSURANCE: $60usd

TOTAL DELIVERY COST: $145usd

Reconfirm your delivery information very correctly and get back to us so that we can direct and forward to you our cashier payment information which you will use to make the payment available to us for the delivery of your ATM Master Card to your door step within 48hours after the confirmation of your payment.

NEEDED INFORMATION

YOUR FULL NAME:.......?
CURRENT ADDRESS:.......?
DIRECT MOBILE NUMBER:.........?

WE AWAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE IMMEDIATELY.

Regards,
Dr. Sanusi Lamido.

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