419 scam: "Hon. Jimoh Hamza Idris"<xxxxxxx425@hushmail.com> UNPAID BENEFICIARY,ARE YOU STILL ALIVE OR NOT

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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:
- "million 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)
- "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
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.
- 2347066403238
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.
- centralbankcode118@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Hon. Jimoh Hamza Idris" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <faxxroomdept@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:17:24 +0100
Subject: UNPAID BENEFICIARY,ARE YOU STILL ALIVE OR NOT

Attn. Unpaid Beneficiary.

Good day Sir.

I am Hon. Jimoh Hamza Idris, Senate Committee on Foreign Payment and in cognizance with the credit cover of CBN duly adopted by the Senate Committee on Foreign Payment as requested for fund movement cover in your favor. I am compelled to advice you to contact Mrs. Sarah Alabi, Director, International Remittance Payment Commission (IRPC) on this mobile phone: 234-706-640-3238, OR through this e-mail: centralbankcode118@gmail.com,very urgently. In view of several efforts already made by us to contact you for the following reasons:

1.My Office desks have just received a Sworn Affidavit to re-route your Contract part payment/Inheritance of (UU$30) Thirty-Million United States Dollars into a new bank account number as stated Prudential Bank and Trust Co (Zamora Branch) Account #: 5068-1117-8.

2. Please, confirm to our department if you have instructed anyone to appoint an attorney/agent on your behalf.

3. Please, confirm if you have authorized us through your agents to issue cash call payment remittance to them on your behalf.

4. Please, also confirm if you have authorized your attorney to change your banking particulars to the following particulars stated below:

Prudential Bank &Trust Co (Zamora Branch)
Zamora Street, Panda can, Manila, Philippines
Bank FSD Account# 5068-1117-8, of Nabil Bahij
Jahas with Bank Tele: 632-564-2095,

5.Also re-confirm your Contract Number, Contract Amount, Private Telephone and Fax number, your e-mail address, Office or home address, so that we can cross-check it with our file records.

We have decided to contact you because we suspected that somebody is trying to divert your money through the Sworn Affidavit of means, into a new different bank account. Already, their associates have requested us to place a cash call order in their favor on your behalf, but we discovered that your signature was forged.

Therefore, you are hereby advised to contact Mrs. Sarah Alabi, Director, and International Remittance Payment Commission (IRPC) on this mobile phone: 234-706-640-3238, or through this e-mail: centralbankcode118@gmail.com, regarding to the above stated. Please inform him and acknowledge your acceptance to the above stated, but if not, please do not hesitate to inform him very urgently, so that he can stop the diversion of your fund. For security reasons, please contact him through e-mail to avoid interception.

Best regards.

Hon. Jimoh Hamza Idris.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Payment.

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