419 scam: "Dr. John Adams" <HINET-IP.hinet.net@sepia.pobox.com> Re: approval and payment authorisation

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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:
- "death certificate" (this phrase is often used in inheritance scams such as next of kin or https://www.419scam.org/419-murdered-businessman.htm">orphan scams. )
- "trunk box" (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)
- "trunk boxes" (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)
- "hundred thousand 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)
- "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.
- +2348037713044 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. John Adams" <HINET-IP.hinet.net@sepia.pobox.com>
Reply-To: <johnadans123@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 21:17:43 -0700
Subject: Re: approval and payment authorisation

Plot 21, ahmadu Bello way
P.o. box 72688 - Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria
Fax:234-803-771-30-44
Bank website: www.ecobank.com
Our ref..........Eco/0371/216/2010

Re: approval and payment authorisation for us$10.5million on 'payment approval no. Eco/0371/216/2010

As a result of the high-powered investigation ordered by the presidency on the activities of the central bank of Nigeria and other government institutions as it concerns foreign contract payments.

Sir, be advised that you are been contacted based on one of the contract cases that has long been overdue for payment. In one of the files that was investigated, all available evidence shows that the beneficiary have not received any part of the payment which is held up at the eco bank of Nigeria by the corrupt cbn officials. This office has completed investigations and established reasons for non-transfer of the approved payment. Some officers of the central bank of Nigeria have made it practically impossible for the contractors to get paid by distorting original information's in the contractor's records and request such contractors to provide frivolous documents with intention of defrauding the contractor.

However we are able to trace the fund at the eco bank of Nigeria where the cbn corrupt officials diverted the fund since the 1999 as an unclaimed payment. Note that the fund was discovered in 2 trunk boxes at the eco bank finance safe-keeping department under the names of the 4 Cbn corrupt officials.

Your contract file was marked not accredited payment as beneficiary have been confirmed dead. And this simply means that the owner of this payment is dead as the letter from the beneficiary's attorney and death certificate contained in the file states that the beneficiary died of heart failure

Based on our investigations preliminary report to the office of the presidency, exposing the fact that the death certificate that was found in your file is forgery and an attempts which diverted your funds to an unknown ghost account, the president have ordered the immediate remittance of your contract payment to your bank account from the eco bank of Nigeria were the fund was discovered.

You are hereby informed that approval has been given for the payment of the outstanding sum totalling us$10.5 {Ten million, five hundred thousand united states dollars} by Diplomatic Currie Sevice from the eco bank of Nigeria.
With effect of this notice, you are further advice to re-confirm the below personal information to this office for the payment verification & swift remittance by the eco bank of Nigeria.

Beneficiary name…
Company name……
Address…………
Direct telephone number………
Fax………………
Ocupation......
dkimmett
Note that you will receive the contact information of our liaison officer with the eco bank of nigeria as soon as we have received the above information to complete the payment verification.

Yours faithfully Dr. John Adams,
Director, foreign remittance dept.
Eco bank of Nigeria plc.

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