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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:
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +2347035747477
• 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.
  • inquiery03@googlemail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <inquiery03@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:36:48 +0000
Subject: UNITED NATIONS 2008 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS



COMPENSATION OFFICE:
UNITED NATIONS 2008 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
ATTN: PLEASE,

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 $6.300, 000 USD.
This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS in conjunctions with the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (F.B.I) MR.
ROBERT S. MUELLER, III FOR COROPORATE AFFAIRS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to pay
150 victims of scam $6.300, 000 USD (Six Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
Only each).

Your email was fund among the list of scam victims, and approved for this
payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this
office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $6.300, 000USD
compensations funds. On these faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last
U.N. meetings held here in New York, it was alarming on the money lost by
various Individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the
world today.

In other to compensate victims, the UNITED NATIONS Body is now paying 150
victims $6.300, 000 USD each in accordance with the FEDERAL BUREAU OF
INVESTIGATION recommendations. Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking
Systems in the world today.
The payments are to not be paid by wire transfer, but by method of ATM CARD,
loaded in TWO BATCHES into an ATM card, and it will be send to you, from this
card you can withdraw a maximum of us$50,000. Per day from any ATM machine
worldwide, BUT from the financial houses there is no limit.

As correspondence paying bank under funding assistance by Intercontinental Bank
Plc. Benefactor of this compensation award will have to be first cleared and
recommended for payment by Intercontinental Bank Plc. According to the number of
applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, over a half of the victims
are from the United States, we still have an outstanding of 36 scam victims left
to be paid. Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their
application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.
So if you would like to receive your funds in this way please send your
following information’s to the paying bank.

1. Fullname:...........................................................................................
2. Fulladdress:...........................................................................................
3. Phone...............................Mobile:......................and
fax:.......................
4. Your Age:..................................YourSex:...............................................
4. Your currentoccupation:........................................................................

Below are the contacts details of the PAYING BANK (INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC)
in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to whom you will send your information for
the processing of the ATM card as soon as possible,

REV RENAULT HOLHBEIN
HEAD OF OPERATIONS ATM CARD
(INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC
EMAIL:inquiery03@googlemail.com
Phone: +234-7035747477
You are advice to contact the above email before it will be too late.

Best Regards.
DR. BAN KI MOON
UN-SECRETARY GENERAL

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