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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:
  • "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "my direct line" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "international remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +2347084140851
• 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.
  • fredrickmartin@cooperation.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "fredrick martin" <fredrickcbn02@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:39:31 -0700
Subject: INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT


CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT.
TEL:+234-708 414 0851


LETTER OF ENQUIRY ON INHERITANCE PAYMENT.

WE WRITE TO ENQUIRE FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE SENT SOMEBODY FROM SWITZERLAND
MR SCHEMIRLAT AND SOME NIGERIA REPRESENTATIVE INCLUDING YOUR ATTORNEY
BARRISTER ADETO THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) TO MAKE CLAIM ONYOUR
BEHALF.

THIS YOUR FUND HAS BEEN CALLED BACK BY THEY CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
SINCE DECEMBER 2007 FROM ABI BANK LONDON DUE TO THERE INABILITY TO
HANDLE
THE
TRANSACTION.

TODAY AT ABOUT 10.00 AM NIGERIA TIME, MR SCHEMIRLAT AND YOUR NIGERIAN
REPRESENTATIVE CAME TO THE BANK SAYING THAT YOU HAVE SENT THEM TO MAKE
CLAIM ON YOUR BEHALF ON YOUR INHERITANCE FUNDS $26.5M USD.

I INITIALLY INSTRUCTED FOR THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO THEM AS THEY CAME
WITH ALL OBLIGATORY DOCUMENTS, BUT ON CROSS CHECKING YOUR INHERITANCE
FILE, I DISCOVERED THAT THE BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER THEY PRESENTED WAS
DIFFERENT FROM YOUR OWN BANK ACCOUNT AND THE BENEFICARY OF THE ACCOUNT
THE
BROUGHT IS CHANGORI AND CHANGORI THAT'S MAKE US TO SUSPECT THEM, THIS
IS A SERIOUS MATTER IN THE APEX BANK NOW AND WE HAVE GIVEN A MANDATE
TO
RELEASE THIS FUND TO YOU BY THE PRESIDENCY.

NOW WE HAVE REQUESTED THEM TO FORWARD A POWER OF ATTORNEY FROM YOU,
INFORMING THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) OF THE CHANGE IN ACCOUNT
NUMBER.

THIS THEY COULD NOT PRODUCE IMMEDIATELY. I HAVE ASKED THEM TO COME BACK
IN TWO DAYS TIME, THIS IS TO ENABLE US CONTACT YOU AND VERIFY HOW
GENUINE THESE TWO PEOPLE ARE TO YOU, THOUGH THEY PROMISED TO PRODUCE
THE
POWEROF ATTORNEY ON THEIR NEXT VISIT TO THE BANK.

I HAVE DEEMED IT NECESSAR Y TO CONTACT YOU AND ASCERTAIN THE TRUE
POSITION IN OTHER TO AVOID REMITTING THESE FUNDS INTO A WRONG ACCOUNT.
COULD
YOU PLEASE CONTACT THE UNDERSIGNED THROUGH THE MAIL, TO CONFIRM
MATTERS
BEFORE WE START TAKING LEGAL ACTION, BUT IF THEY ARE FROM YOU, KINDLY
GIVE THEM THE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE INHERITANCE
FUNDS INTO THE SWITZERLAND ACCOUNT(UBS) AG BANKING SWITZERLAND. YOU
SHOULD
NOTE THAT BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE PRESIDENCY, AND IN LINE WITH THE
ENABLING DECREE OF 512 "A" IN CONSULTATION WITH THE RELEVANT BODIES;

THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN), THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE (NEIC) AND THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE (FMF), WE HAVE
RESOLVED THAT ALL OVERDUE INHERITANCE PAYMENTS BE RELEASED THIS
QUARTER IN
ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE TO THE I.M.F AND WORLD BANK MANDATORY
CONDITIONALITIES OF SERVICE TO OUR FOREIGN CAPITAL DEBTS. BASED ON
THIS, THIS
OFFICE
HAS BEEN MANDATED BY THE PRESIDENCY TO HANDLE ALL PAYMENTS DUE TO
FOREIGN INHERITANCE.

GO ING THROUGH YOUR RECORD WITH GOLF BANK PLC WE FIND OUT THAT YOU
HAVE SPENT SO MUCH MONEY WITH OUT RESULT THAT WAS WHY THE APEX WITH
DIRECTIVE FROM THE PRESIDENCY HAS DECIDED TO HANDLE THIS PAYMENT BY
THEMSELF.ALSO THROUGH OUR OBSERVATION WE FIND OUT THAT YOUR ATTORNEY
BARRSITER
ADE IS ALSO MAKING THINGS HARD, THATS, WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED THIS
FUND.

YOU SHOULD THEREFORE DISREGARD ANY CORRESPONDENCE THAT YOU MAY HAVE OR
MAY COME TO YOU FROM ANY OTHER PERSON OR DEPARTMENT.IF YOU REALLY NEED
THIS MONEY BECAUSE WE HAVE GONE THROUGH YOUR FILE AND WE FIND OUT THAT
YOUARE THE ORIGINAL BENEFICIARY OF THE INHERITANCE FUND.

PLEASE ASSIST U S TO EXPEDITE ACTION AND GET BACK TO ME IMMEDIATELY YOU
RECEIVE THIS MAIL NOW.YOU CAN CALL ME ON MY DIRECT LINE 234-708 414
0851

REPLY TO FREDRICK HERE; fredrickmartin@cooperation.net

I AM WAITING FOR YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE AND CO-OPERATION.

YOURS FA ITHFULLY,

DR.FREDRICK MARTIN
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT

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