419 scam: PRESIDENCY <jspresidencyoff@yahoo.com> PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.

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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:
- "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)
- "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.
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.
- +2348096603237 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- frankmorgan5977@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: PRESIDENCY <jspresidencyoff@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: PRESIDENCY <frankmorgan5977@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:58:01 +0900
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. ASO ROCK ABUJA. ATTN: BENEFICIARY. DUE TO PERSISTENT TRADE DISAGREEMENT OVER THIS REOCCURRING PAYMENT, APPROVAL FOR THE SUM OF $4.5 MILLION ISUSSED IN YOUR FAVOR, DR Frank Morgan HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY APPOINTED TO HANDLE THE PAYMENT FOR THIS APPROVAL TO YOU. YOU ARE ONLY DUTY BOUND TO CLEAR THE ONLY PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENT AS APPROVE BY LAW. AFTER YOU HAVE MET THIS LEGAL STIPULATION FOR THE PAYMENT, YOU ARE TO THEN SUBMIT YOUR RECEIVING ACCOUNT AND THIS FUND SHALL BE REMITTED TO YOUR ACCOUNT WITHIN 48HRS. PLEASE THIS IS A LETTER OF DEFINITE ASSURANCE ON THIS MATTER, AS YOU ARE NOW ADVISED NOT TO UNDER RATE THIS DIRECTIVE. YOU CAN CALL DR Frank Morgan,CHAIRMAN, FOREIGN DEBT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, DIRECTLY ON +234 80-9660-3237. EMAIL: frankmorgan5977@yahoo.com PLEASE SEE THE AUTHENTIC APPROVAL LETTER TO YOU BELOW: This letter is being sent to you with absolute assurance. Please go through it with full attention and comply as directed. This is a final decision of the board of the Federal Ministry of Finance to contact you to apply for your Contract claim of Four Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($4.5 Million). This letter serves as an approval and claim authority to you, please print it and save copy in your file. You are therefore directed to apply for this payment because the Federal Ministry of Finance payment computer authenticated your email data as the right payment code to pull the sum of $4.5 Million for Contract pay out! You are hereby informed of this new development because over the years due to administrative bureaucracy there are several payments funds blocked in the system because of lost in communication with the foreign beneficiaries! Every year due to international trade obligations, the board of the Federal Ministry of Finance randomly uses email codes to unblock suspended payments in the central computer system. Once a break through is achieved the email owner is then contacted to receive the funds. This is why you are now contacted to receive the sum of $4.5 Million unblocked with your email code under the ministry’s international trade agreement obligations. To receive the fund, you are to apply with your full name and address and a receiving account where the fund will be remitted to you. For the records and purposes of internal audit after the fund is sent out to the beneficiary, the ministry of Finance is only permitted to collect from the Beneficiary an Administrative Charges of $850.00 out side the fund for supporting Isotope Affidavit. The Board of the Ministry of Finance and the Presidency congratulate you formally and wish you the best of transactions as this fund is remitted to you just in a matter of days! Congratulations! Dr John Idika SPECIAL ADVISER TO THE PRESIDENT ON Economic and Financial Matters. CC: Board of Federal Ministry of Finance. Accountant General. Foreign debt Management Committee.

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