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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "into your nominated bank 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)
  • "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 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.
  • charles4soludo_cbn_n@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: charles soludo <profcharles102_so@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <charles4soludo_cbn_n@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:01:09 +0100
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION OF YOUR FUND



CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

FROM THE DESK OF PROF.CHUKWUMA C.SOLUDO
GOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA.









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FINAL PAYMENT
ATTN:
We have receive an instruction from the office of the presidency today regards to your Inheritance /contract payment, You are being warned to decease from contacting any offices or department henceforth because you were asked to pay some certain amount of money which you are not supposed to pay such amount but due to your payment file is in my office and has been approved by the presidency to pay you as a genuine contractor to the Federal Government of Nigeria, I am bringing to your notice that your payment had been stopped by my office due to the following reason. Following our investigation, we have discovered that a lot of people are contacting you and also coming after your payment saying that you have authorize them to claim your contract payment of US$12.5M. I used this opportunity to inform you to stop further communication with any office and follow my instruction to avoid you not to be scammed. The only authorize bank that will release your payment is our big Bank (Central Bank of Nigeria) through our settlement account we have with the Abbey Bank national Plc London as soon as I receive your reply, we shall give an instruction immediately for the release of your contract fund into your nominated bank account through the Abbey Bank national plc London.
I will file up an application on your behalf so that the Federal Ministry of Justice will approve your payment as a legal contractor/beneficiary of these funds and to avoid any diversion of your payment, if you are dealing with any offices before, please forward me the contact information of the offices to verify if that office is authentic. I am warning you to be careful as a lot of offices have pose as Government officials, you have to confirm to me the following information immediately. 1 Your full name and address.2 Your cell phone number, office and home numbers as well.3 The amount due for payment.
4 Age/Sex
5 Occupation
6 Company/Position Held

If you have any transaction that is yet to be release to you, please get back to my office for further Investigation and once again, I am assuring you that you must surely receive your payment as far as my office is concern. Finally, do not make any unnecessary payment to any office without the approval of my office as the Governor Central Bank of Nigeria to verify if that fee is needful.
Please I want you to reconfirm all the above information’s to me immediately so that we can proceed in this transaction: you can forward your response to this email: charles4soludo_cbn_n@excite.com
Meanwhile we hope to have a good working relationship with you.

PROF. CHUKWUMA C. SOLUDO CFR (CHAIRMAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA


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