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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "is highly confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "diplomatic agent" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned 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 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.
  • +2347039045844
• 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.
  • help.unitednationsdelegates2008@hotmail.com
  • 3ahelp.unitednationsdelegates2008@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "tonywilliams1 Gazeta.pl" <tonywilliams1@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 09:54:23 -0700
Subject: UNITED NATIONS COMPESATION PAYMENT/YOU ARE LISTED.


U.N COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS OF US$750,000.00
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE U.N DELEGATES.
CENTRAL BANK OF NIG./UNITED NATIONS 2008.
Tell: +234-703-9045844.
DATE: 24/03/2008.

Attn: Scammed Victim,

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: TRASNFER#0662167 US$750,000.00.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations
to Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) Abuja to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims
US$750,000.00 each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of
the scammed victims,get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate
payments of your US$750,000.00 Thousand (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand
United State Dollars) compensations funds for the Year 2008.

On this faithfull recomendations,I want you to know that during the last UN
meetings held at Abuja,Nigeria,it was alarmed so much by the rest of the
world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the
scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today.

In other to retain the good image of the country,the president of the
country(President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua) is now paying 100 victims of this
operators US$750,000.00 each, the Compesation Payments are to be paid by
Central Bank Of Nigeria Abuja,Nigeria In partnership with the United Nations
(UN).

According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been paid
,half of the victims are from the United States of America, we still have
more 16 left to be paid the compensations of US$750,000.00 each. Your
particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in
Lagos Nigeria as one of thier victims of the operations,you are hereby
warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to any body for any
reason whatsoever,the US secret service is already on trace of the
criminals.

You are to know that this Transfer that the United Nations has set up in
partnership with the Nigerian Goverment for the Year 2008 is highly
Confidential. I also want to advice you to be more careful and do not
respond to any emails to people you don't know so that you don't fall into
wrong hands in order for you not to loose more money.

For more vital information,please visit:
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm

You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options you
choose:Bank to Bank Wire Transfer,ATM Transfer Payment,Credit Card Transfer
Payment,Equity Account of yours or Through the United Nations Diplomatic
Agents.

I want you to furnish me with the required informations below so that an
urgent attention will be given to you without delay.

1:YOUR FULL NAMES...............................
2:YOUR CONTACT ADDRES...........................
3:YOUR OCCUPATION...............................
4:YOUR SEX............. AND AGE.................
5:YOUR PRIVATE TEL..............................
6:YOUR STATE.......... AND COUNTRY..............

I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.All i
just want you to do is for you to forward all recent e-mails you have been
receiveing from those fraudsters to these office so that we can forward them
to the Nigerian Police for Investigation .

Thanks,
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Tony Williams.

Reply through e-mail
address:help.unitednationsdelegates2008@hotmail.com<address%3Ahelp.unitednationsdelegates2008@hotmail.com>

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