419 scam: Ron Mills <hr@mail.yamoffice.yam.com> Personal secretary to the FBI Director (Ron Mills)

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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:
- "western union" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "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)
- ",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)
- "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. )
- "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
- "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
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.
- +2348082345351 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Ron Mills <hr@mail.yamoffice.yam.com>
Reply-To: <duke_p@yahoo.cn>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:05:50 -0700
Subject: Personal secretary to the FBI Director (Ron Mills)

MASTERCARD HAS APPROVED YOUR ATM CARD FOR DELIVERY (FBI)

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Ron Mills, the personal secretary to the FBI Director; Robert S. Mueller III. Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot on your personal earned money obtaining transfer documents as requested by Imposters, costing you a lot of money, yet all efforts to receive your overdue payment have been to no avail.

With the help of some of the best Internet investigators attached to the FBI, we have taken out time in screening through this project as stipulated on our protocol of operation and in addition, we sent special financial crime investigators from Washington DC to Africa in other to carry out proper investigations after receiving series of reports similar to yours as you are not the only person awaiting the legal transfer of funds from Africa.

Based on the findings of our special financial crime investigators, we discovered that your impending payment is being delayed by Imposters, claiming to be Mr. Lamido Sanusi (The New Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria), Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr. Frank Nweke, None existing officials of Oceanic Bank of Nigeria, Zenith Bank, UK winning Lottery, Andy Lear of Hsbc bank, Coca-Cola winning lottery and Mr Abdoulie Janneh (UNECA) among a list of others. With the help of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Local Police Force these Impostors have been arrested and necessary legal actions will be taken to bring them to book.

In our bid to transparency, I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to affect the compensation exercise for transparency and most especially to avoid reoccurrence of the delay in payment. In conclusion, we came to a final resolution as all the Financial Institutions involved was duly represented. It might interest you to note that MasterCard International have hence been empowered to assist the Federal Ministry of Finance and all the financial institutions involved; such as the Central Bank, Zenith Bank, and Legit lottery organizations to immediately commence with the compensation of all the beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of their funds.

The first Batch of payment; Four million, five hundred thousand United States dollars ($4,500,000.00), Credited to MasterCard Account No. 5148 6547 8940 **** with serial Numbers: 2419*** and Reg. No. MCIMJ: 5148/4172 was approved to be issued to you as a valid international ATM MasterCard accepted in more than a million ATM's, over 210 countries around the World, with a daily withdrawal Limit of Ten thousand United States Dollars. $10,000.00.

Now your payment will be sent to you by ATM card that will be coming alongside a custom pin which you will use to withdraw up to $10,000 per day from any ATM machine that has the Master Card Logo on it. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your bank account, because the ATM card will be registered with Interswitch. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten on how to use it.Your ATM card would be sent to you via DHL.

Reconfirm your delivery information as stated below for the delivery;

FULL NAME (This name would appear on your MasterCard):
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
CELLPHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:

NOTE: Under normal circumstances, all beneficiaries are mandated to travel over to Africa Regional office with valid identification's to sign the release documents in person However, the Finance Ministry insists on you securing a non Appearance Approval Letter so as to Cut-short Traveling expenses and stress of traveling over to Africa. The non appearance approval slip attracts a fee of $180.00 only.

Having said all this, we implore you to expedite immediate action in sending the $180.00 via Western Union Money Transfer. We hope that this is very clear. All modalities for the delivery have been employed already.

A receipt to this effect will be sent to you upon confirmation of the $180.00 fee and the Courier Company will be contacting you too with the Parcel Delivery Information which will include the Package Tracking Numbers to enable you track the MasterCard online till it gets to your nominated address.

CONTACT INFO'S FOR NON APPEARANCE APPROVAL LETTER.

NAME: Dr. Peter Duke
EMAIL: duke_p@yahoo.cn
PHONE: +234-808 234 5351.

We also advise that you stop further communications with these imposters and forward any correspondence/proposal you receive from them to email address of (report.dept@w.cn/report.dept@att.net) in other for the FBI to bring justice to does still at large.

Mr. Ron Mills.
For: Mr. Robert S. Mueller III
FBI DIRECTOR.

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