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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • +447024094910 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • co_mrsmonicarose@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Debt Settlement Center London" <foreignpaymentdebt@excite.com>
Reply-To: co_mrsmonicarose@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:52:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re-Remittance of:Yours Funds/lheritance






Re-Remittance of:Yours Funds/lheritance(From:Mrs Monica Rose)(Debt Settlement Center London United Kingdom)Tel:+44 702 409 4910. Contact Email Address: co_mrsmonicarose@yahoo.co.uk Re-Remittance of:Yours Funds/lheritanceAttention: BeneficiaryWe have been directed to contact you by his excellency the president, federal republic of Nigeria Chief( Olusegun Obasanjo) to discuss possible modalities that will be instituted in order to offset/settle your contractual entitlement which payment has been approved several time without your money being remitted to your accounts.We have been well briefed by ministries/ parastatals that were directly and indirectly involved in the processing and settlement of your contractual entitlements, the reason behind your inability to actually secure the releasing of your contractual entitlements to your account is because of the existence of unknown persons who has continually posed as authentic CBN and government officials thereby making it
virtually impossible for you to secure the release of your contractual entitlements.The president of the federal republic of Nigeria chief Olusegun Obasanjo in his genuine effort to eliminate corruption at the highest level during his visit to London in the beginning of this year had an agreement with the prime minister and also some financial institution to assist the Federal republic of Nigeria in scrutinizing the payment of all her external contractors whose debts runs into millions of dollars during the military regime of their past rulers. It was during this meeting we discovered that several banks in Europe has been used to deceive and defraud unsuspecting contractors that their money has been sent to them. It was after his visit that this body (Debt Settlement center) was constituted to take up the immediate reconciliation, verifications/ settlement of all categories of debt owed to foreign contractors by the federal government of Nigeria.Funds has been made available
for this very purpose and this body has just received further boost up to the tune of us$700.000.000.00.from money recovered by the federal government of Nigeria from the Abacha's loot which was made possible by the intervention of the prime minister Tony Blair and other E.U member states.Your name and that of 10 other contractors from the United States of America, Malaysia, Germany, Austria and the France has just been sent to us during this present scheme so that we can contact you and discuss new modalities of payment which the federal government of Nigeria has worked out.Your bank account details which we have in the payment file jacket that has been submitted to us on your behalf by the federal ministry of Finance in Nigeria for the immediate remittance of your contractual entitlement will be given as follow.Client's Name:........................Telephone Number:.....................Fax Number:...........................Amount:...............................Account
name:.........................Bank name:............................Account Number:.......................Swift Code............................Make any corrections and give us further details of your contract records for authentications to ensure a swift action to be taken in line with the releasing of your contractual sum.Sincerely Yours.Mrs Monica Rose.Co-Ordinator( DSCL)London

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