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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)
  • "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.
  • +2347090142439
• 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.
  • senatecommittee09@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Cofe Johnson"<cofejohnson777@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <senatecommittee09@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:10:16 +0100
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION.

SENATE COMMITTEE OF NIGERIA.
OFFICE OF THE SENATOR ON FUND MATTERS.
23/25 ROAD, AGO-OKOTA LAGOS, NIGERIA.
EMAIL: senatecommittee09@gmail.com
TEL: +234-70-9014-2439

Urgent Attention.

Attention has been brought to us in form of a petition as regards to the contracts which were completed and awaiting payment. Let me first update you with the fact that based on the petition forwarded to the Senate Committee on Foreign Financial Matters, which the copy of the petition was forwarded to the office of the Executive President Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN). I wish to inform you, that it was discovered in the petition that the former governor, Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Ministry Of Finance (FMF) headed by Professor Charles Soludo and Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman has part of effort to frustrate foreign contractors deliberately without releasing the approved contract payment to the beneficiary.

It was also discovered in the same petition that the above mention banking and financial ministry is using their honorable office to intimidate most especially the foreign contractors/ foreign investors, in order to exhort money from them for their personal interest. Therefore, I and other members of the committee visited the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN)/Federal Ministry of Finance(FMF) and your name was found among the foreign contractor whose payment have been duly approved years back and your payment is still lying pending due to the nonchalant attitude of the officials in authority.

As regard to this finding, this Honorable Committee therefore, notified the Office of the Executive President Federal Republic Of Nigeria of the dubious attitude of the Banking and Finance Ministry, so that necessary action should be commenced urgently regarding the release of all overdue and outstanding contract payment to the bonfire contractors.

In this case, all contractors file have been withdrawn from the Federal Ministry of Finance and Central Bank Of Nigeria(CBN) and forwarded to this office for urgent remittance of fund into contractors various bank account.

Meanwhile, concerned contractors should acknowledge this message and get back with me for more notification in respect of his/her overdue contract payment.

While contractors should also stop further transactions and communication with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)/Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF)

1.Your Name.
2.Your Age/Sex.
3.Your Location.
4.Your Marital.
5. Your Occupation.
6.Your Cell Phone number And Fax Number.

Endeavor to update this committee upon the receipt of your claims for record purpose.

NOTE: Await your email response via details below for more updating:


Yours Faithfully

Dr. Cofe Johnson
Chairman Payment Release/Debt Settlement Committee.

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