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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:
  • "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 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.
  • +2348037162008 (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.
  • js1969w@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <js1969w@sifymail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:40:36 -0700
Subject: Overdue Payment

External Review Committee on Debt.
Central Bank of Nigeria in Collaboration with IMF,
International Credit Settlement Dept.

Attention Beneficiary:

We wish to inform the beneficiary of all the overdue payment whose name was in our files as beneficiary or as the next kin that your payment has been scheduled to be paid a compensation fund of $550, 000.00 through our Automated teller machine card (ATM Card) which you will only be required to proceed to any ATM Cash Point to withdraw the sum of $2,500 per day till the payment is completed.

This development is as a result of a new payment policy carried out by Central Bank of Nigeria in collaboration with International Monetary Fund in accordance with the World Bank to compensation of all overdue payment. We have gone through your files and have discovered why you have not received your payments yet.
Since we have decided to bring a solution to this problem we have arranged to make payments through our swift card payment which is the latest instruction by the new elected president Alhaji Musa Umaru Yar'Adua (GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria.

This joint effort is to help Central Bank of Nigeria through our London office and a correspondent bank in the UK to restrict and monitor every international transaction, to avoid money laundry activities and to help fight fraudulent activities.
In View of this, you are advised to contact the Processing Director of ATM

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DR.ISAAC JOSEPH
Tel:011 234 803 716 2008
Email:js1969w@gmail.com
Cc:js1969w@sifymail.com
When you contact him, kindly provide your;

1. Full Name (As Stated in your ID)
2. Contact Address
3. Telephone/Fax number
4. Current Occupation
5. Nationality:
6. Age/Sex

All this will be used to process and acquire your ATM card and immediately this is done we will then dispatch your ATM card to you. You will be given the detail as soon as you contact the Processing officer as stated above. We hope you do get in touch with us so that we can process and finalize your documents.

Thanks,
Gloria Iwueke.

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