419 scam: "Shawn Henry"<acadiahotel@aol.com> Re:Reason why your fund was intercepted!!!

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
- "transfer into your account" (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)
- "million united states dollars" (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)
- "economic and financial crimes commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- efccnig.efccofficeng@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Shawn Henry" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbi.us979@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 00:30:29 +0100
Subject: Re:Reason why your fund was intercepted!!!

Federal Bureau of Investigation

601 4th Street NW

Washington, DC 20535

Fax: 202 278-2478

Our Ref: FBI/FGN/DOJ/04/2010.

            YOUR FUND HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED BY THE FBI.

I wish to use this conduit to inform you that your FGN Grant Payment of 10 Million US Dollar (Ten Million United States Dollars) from Intercontinental Bank Plc have been released and transferred to you via a wire transfer/ATM card which your bank will notify you and you will have access to the 10 Million US Dollar in any ATM service machine. The Intercontinental Bank Plc have made this transfer to your bank account with payment slip number 001138667 But we are sorry to inform you that the fund could not be released to your bank account because the Intercontinental Bank Plc used what we know as a secret diplomatic transit payment S.T.D.P to pay this fund through wire transfer.

They are still waiting for final confirmation from you on the already transferred fund, to enable them credit your account accordingly. Secret Diplomatic Transfer payment are normally funds related to drug/terrorist and money laundering system of payment, why must your payment be made in such secret transfer , if your transaction is legitimate and not related to drug/terrorist and money laundering, why can't the Intercontinental Bank Plc effect direct transfer into your account than to use secret diplomatic payment transfer? You are therefore advice to contact the EFCC International Transfer Monitoring Unit for proper documents before we can embark on releasing your fund to your bank account.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Contact Person: Mr. Femi Babafemi

Office Tel: 08191346987

E-mail: efccnig.efccofficeng@rocketmail.com

Tell Mr. Femi Babafemi, that you received this message from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington DC, instructing him to send you the proper documents, which will empower you to have access to your 10 Million US Dollar in any ATM service machine/bank account, also send him your direct phone number and contact address where you want him to send the documents.

We are very sorry for the plight you have gone through. Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accept our full service cooperative.

Your faithfully,

Assistant Director in Charge

Shawn Henry                                                             cc: Robert S. Mueller

                                                                                   Director FBI

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