419 scam: "DR JAMES OBI"<maxine.buckley@o2.co.uk> YOUR COMPENSATION PAYMENT OF US$500,000.00

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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)
- "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)
- "abuja" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: "DR JAMES OBI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jamesobi88@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:41:56 -0800
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION PAYMENT OF US$500,000.00

From Dr. James Obi
Chief Accountant General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Federal Secretariat Towers (5th & 10th floors)
Shehu Shagari Way, Central Area, Garki, Abuja.

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA COMPENSATION UNIT,IN AFFILIATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS.

Dear Sir/Madam,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? You may not understand why this email is coming to you. I am Dr. James Obi, the Chief Accountant General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Due to series of petitions received from International Bodies on the manner at which fraudsters around the world especially Nigerians defrauded them and took over all or part of their entire life savings, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and my good self unbehalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria have been having a meeting with the Secretary-General to the UNITED NATIONS, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the past 10 days. This meeting ended 3 days ago,and our main objective was to device possible means of compensating some of those people that has been defrauded in the past by those unknown fraudsters.

Being the outcome of our meeting,we are sending this email message to selected people that has been scammed in any part of the world through one way or the orther, the UNITED NATIONS have therefore agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$ 500, 000. 00 (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) for each and every selected fraud victim. This includes some of those foreign contractors or inheritors that could not receive their contract or inheritace payments, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.

We found your email address on the list of selected fraud victims supplied to us by the UNITED NATIONS and that is why we are contacting you.It has however been agreed upon that you should be paid with immediate effect following the approval of your payment by the Central Bank of Nigeria in aggreement with the UNITED NATION'S Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

You are therefore advised to get back to us as soon as possible, to enable us instruct the Central Bank of Nigeria which is the United Nation's Paying Bank here in West Africa to pay you.

Congratulations!

Yours Faithfully

Dr. James Obi
Chief Accountant General (Federal Republic of Nigeria)
Central Area, Garki, Abuja.

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