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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:
  • "charles soludo" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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)
• 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.
  • +2347025479094
• 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.
  • youngokasfor@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "okafor young" <youngokafor3@nsk.biz>
Reply-To: youngokasfor@yahoo.dk
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:01:56 +0100
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION


FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
PRESIDENTIAL JOINT OFFICE
INTERNATIONAL DOUBT SETTLEMENT OFFICE
ROOM 118/121 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMPLEX
ASO-ROCK ABUJA-NIGERIAFrom The President,
Federal Republic of Nigeria


Attn: Honorable,

I have decided to pay all foreigners their funds directly by myself Stop
communication with any Nigerian official if you are still alive and wish to
receive your funds.

I wish to inform you that Governor Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor
Charles Soludo drew my attention about the sudden application for change of
your bank account by some person {s} stating that you are dead and that they
are your next of kin, with a new bank account which has been processed and
approved by the Federal House of Senate, but Professor Charles Soludo has
refused to honor this application and insisted that your fund will be paid
to the account provided by you before your sudden death.

I have instructed my secretary (Mr. Young Okafor) to write to enquire about
the sincerity of this application made by your claimed next of kin, as we
have tried sending fax but all to no avail and decided to mail, for this
nascent democratic government will not be held responsible for any wrongful
transfer of your fund. You are therefore required to contact this office
under 48 hrs to authenticate the authenticity and unauthenticity of this
application, if you are still alive. Contact Mr. President directly by
phone: +234-702-547-9094 or mail: youngokasfor@yahoo.dk

Failure to contact him or contact us through this mail addressed used to
send this mail, your funds will be transferred to your next of kin.

Send your response if any to E-mail: youngokasfor@yahoo.dk

Mr. Young Okafor
Executive Secretary to:
Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua GCFR,
President Federal Republic of Nigeria

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