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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "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.
  • +2348088771292 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • nolanfrancis@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <nolanfrancis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:49:56 +0000
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION PAYMENT



FROM:MR.MR.MR.FRANCIS NOLANECO FINANCIAL HOUSE/UNITED NATIONS 2008Tell:234-8088771292COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS REF/PAYMENTS CODE: TRASNFER#06654 $5,000,000, 00.USD This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to Ecobank Abuja to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $5,000,000, 00.USD 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 five million usd dollars compensations funds. 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 loss 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 Musa Umaru Yaradua. ) is now paying 100 victims of this operators $5,000,000, 00.USD USD each, the payments are to be paid by Ecobank Abuja ,Nigeria,corressponding paying bank under funding assistance by the Central Bank of Nigeria(C.B.N.). According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more 16 left to be paid the compensations of $5,000,000, 00.USD 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 what so ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminals. You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options you choose, DRAFT PAYMENTS, WIRE TRANSFERS or by a diplomatic home cash delivery,I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you. Yours faithfully,MR.Francis NolanReply through this e-mail address: nolanfrancis@gmail.com

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