419 scam: "Mr.Owen Daniel"<owenvfcuk@gmail.com> VICTIM OF FRAUD???

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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:

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:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
- "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. )
- "(efcc)" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Owen Daniel" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.owendaniel@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 19:36:44 -0700
Subject: VICTIM OF FRAUD???

Dear Sir/Madam,
As part of the Federal government effort to redeem the bartered image of Nigeria,President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has instructed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to compensate all victims of fraud from the loot recovered from fraud stars that were arrested and sentenced to jail.

As a result of the aforementioned, I write to notify you that your
overdue compensation as victim of fraud from Nigeria and the accrued interest totaling US$ 3,500,000.00 have been approved for release by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and you are hereby advised to immediately contact the U.K Officer in charge (below) for payment,without further delay: Please send the agency your complete address.your proof of identification and full name to enable process and transfer your funds to you.

Note: because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct,which is (OFA445) so you have to indicate this code when contacting.

Do keep me posted with development as I have been equally instructed to prepare and submit a Report of Claim, ASAP.

Thank you.

Regards,

Bar. Owen Daniel
Special Adviser to EFCC on (VFC).

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