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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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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "transfer into your account" (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)
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • tpounds1@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: TUNDE POUNDS <tpounds709@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <tpounds1@sify.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:09:04 +0100
Subject: Please get back to me...


Mr:- Tunde Pounds
Niger Delta Development Commission,
Old Secretariat Complex,
Victoria-Island, Lagos.
Email(tpounds1@sify.com)

Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Tunde Pounds, an official in the Nigerian Government and also a founding member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). I guess this mail will come to you as a surprise, I believe it's God's direction, the fact is that you and two other people where the result of my search for a foreign contact.

I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues, to look for an overseas account were we would transfer some funds into, hence the reason for this mail. We shall be Transferring the money to your account with you as the beneficiary, under the guise that you are being paid for a contract which you/your company executed for our country through the NDDC and any other Federal Ministry that we decide to use to siphon the funds through.

My committee - The Niger Delta Development Commission (N.D.D.C.) - which is in charge of managing and supervising the disbursement of oil sales revenues for the Nigerian Government which covers payment to foreign and local contractors that have executed contracts for our country. The revenue under our control runs into several hundred of millions of dollars monthly. Myself and other colleagues in the N.D.D.C. are currently in need of a foreign partner with whose bank account we shall transfer the sum of Fourty Million United States Dollars ($40M). This fund was accrued from various over invoicing of foreign contractor's payments made over the years.

The Total fund is presently waiting in the Government Account named CBN/FGN INDEPENDENT REVENUE account of the Central Bank of Nigeria. However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of the N.D.D.C., we cannot acquire this funds in our name. This is because as top civil servants, we are not allowed by law of the land to own or operate bank accounts outside our country for now.

For your support and partnership, please reply me through this reserved mail boxEmail(tpounds1@sify.com)Your percentage will be discuss, you must however note that this transaction with regards to our disposition to continue with you, is subject to the terms. Firstly, our conviction of your transparency, Secondly that you treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality and above all, that you will provide an account over which you have absolute control. This transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and there is no risk or legal liability either to ourselves or yourself now or in the future as we have put in place the necessary machinery that will ensure a hitch free transfer into your account upon acceptance.

The transfer will be effected to your account within ten to fourteen (10-14) working days from the date we reach an agreement and you furnish me with a suitable bank account and company name and address with all your contact numbers fax/telephone.

I look forward to doing business with you and do seek your transparency in this transaction, Please mail your response to me through Email(tpounds1@sify.com) so i can also give you my phone contact numbers and update you on our plans as to how we intend to actualize this. Moreso, I will also appreciate you send me your Telephone/Fax number in your response.

Sincerely yours,
Mr- Tunde Pounds
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