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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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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• 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.
  • +23417903451 (Nigeria, landline)

Fraud email example:

From: "Hon. Mrs. Nenadi Usman" <charles2000247@yahoo.com.br>
Reply-To: nig_fmf@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:35:37 -0300 (ART)
Subject: URGENT!!!


www.fmf.gov.ng

URGENT.

ATTN: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR.

I am Hon.Mrs.Nenadi Usman.working with the Minister of Finance, However am sending this notice to confirm from you, if you are the one who instructed two gentlemen from your country (name withheld) who is working as your Attorney and Sectary, to change your Contract part payment of $15.5 Million account informations on your behalf.

The two gentlemen confirmed to us that you are terminal sick that you will not make it, that`s the reason why you send them to change the name and account informations on your contract file.

This the Bank account information given to us by the said gentlemen is stated as follows:

FIRST METROPOLITAN CREDIT UNION
1870 ADOBE STREET, CONCORD CALIFORNIA 94520
A/C NO: 355585-90
ROUTING NO: 311749560
A/C NAME: ACE PRINTING COMPANY.

Kindly confirm to us if the above bank information is really from you in order to avoid any mistake in transfering your funds to you. If it is really from you, please we want you to contact this office immediately to effect your payment to you with out any delay.If we did not hear from you, it automatically means that you are really on sick bed and the information passed to us is correct. You are to contact us immediately before the change of account will be made with the above informations.

Please get back to us as soon as possible to comfirm the above bank informations is truely from you.

Thanks.

Hon,Mrs.Nenadi Usman.
www.fmf.gov.ng
Telfax: 234-1-7903451
Ministry of Finance

















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