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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.

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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • +2348058659569 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • dibuchi234_80586@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: WEF WEF <klausschwab_wef@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:22:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: URGENT PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.


WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM (WEF)
91-93 ROUTE DE LA CAPITE, CH – 1223
COLOGNY/GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.

REF: WEF/SWIT/FRN/67C02/06
27th June, 2006

Attn: Amarjit Singh,

RE: URGENT PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

Reference to our last meeting held in Davos, Switzerland on the 26th - 30th Sept, 2005, I, Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, concluded the Annual Meeting by urging participants to exercise "self responsibility, global responsibility – and the tsunami aid showed that we are capable of this - and responsibility to the next generation, including Africa's debt relief, of which G8 President and British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo, agreed at the Meeting for the cancellation of Multilateral debt to the most impoverished nations in West Africa and the subsequent payment of Nigerian beneficiary(s) / contractors, as a pre-condition for international investors to invest in Africa, most especially Nigeria, of which it was agreed upon that both foreign and local inheritance beneficiaries must be paid their entitlements with a new payment procedure already put in place by this World Economic Forum
/ World Bank & IMF.


After we have studied intelligent reports on your payment forwarded to us by the West Africa Consulate who are members of this forum, we discovered that your payment is being withheld due to your non-payment of various charges imposed / payment anomalies at the Central Bank of Nigeria/Commercial Banks/Offshore payment centres, which we consider as weapon/sabotage to world economic growth, of which we hereby BAN such activities in our ploy to rid Africa of this atrocities/fraudulent acts perpetrated by unscrupulous elements of their society. To this end, you are to stop communication with any office in Nigeria and abroad concerning your long over-due payment, aside the Director of Telex/wire transfer department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) who has been mandated by authority of the World Economic Forum to verify and remit all outstanding contract and inheritance payment to various beneficiaries involve in this arrangement.

Contact Person:
Engr. David Ibuchi
Tel: +234-8058659569
E-mail: dibuchi234_80586@yahoo.com

Note that every instruction/obligation from Engr. David. are true and correct, he acts under this forum authorized by Order 9 Rule 2(1), Order 33 Rule 13, Order 34 Rules 1,2,3,(1) Order 54 Rule 8 of the World Economic Forum, on payment of Nigerian beneficiaries/contractors.

You are therefore to forward your means of identification, and your direct telephone/fax number, amount to be paid, contract number/inheritance payment number or any prove for your claim to him.

We apologise that this information is coming to you late after the resolution by this commission to reflect on the decision reached at the meeting last year, the reason is that we have been trying to raise grant to the Nigerian Government through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) through the Federal Government of Nigeria Oil Reserve Account in London and Bahamas to settle all these outstanding debts. Please bear with us and kindly respond swiftly to this message accordingly.


Yours faithfully,
Professor Klaus Schwab
Executive Chairman
World Economic Forum




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