419 scam: "CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA"<hr@sefam.com> FROM THE DESK OF: DR. KINGSLEY MOGHALU (OON)

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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:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million united state 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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "economic and financial crime 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)
- "www.cenbank.org" (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.
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.
- +2347051065644 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <compensationcentre2010@aliyun.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:12:39 -0300
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF: DR. KINGSLEY MOGHALU (OON)

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

FROM THE DESK OF: • DR. KINGSLEY MOGHALU (OON)

DEPUTY GOVERNOR, FINANCIAL SYSTEM STABILITY

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)

WEBSITE: WWW.CENBANK.ORG

http://www.cenbank.org/aboutcbn/TheList.asp

YOUR PAYMENT OF 5 MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS THROUGH ATM CARD.

Attention: Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that your ATM Card worth $5,000,000.00 United State Dollars has been approved by the federal Government Of Nigeria and it is ready for final delivery, you are hereby inform to send down your full information where you desire to receive your ATM Card to enable us submit it to the delivery company that will deliver it to you.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA have agreed to compensate them with the sum of $5,000,000.00 (Five Million United State Dollars) This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems, Contracts Sum, Lottery/Gambling etc. Your name and email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Teams of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) observers and this is why we are contacting you via email to let you know the situation at hand, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

Please be informed that you are only paying a fee of $350 for the shipment charges to enable the courier company deliver your ATM Card to your door step.

Get back to us with the needed information below as to enable us know where to send the ATM CARD:

1 Your Full Name:

2. Your Current Address:

3. Your direct telephone numbers:

4, Your Identity Card:

We are waiting to receive the motioned information from you, to enable us submit the information and your ATM CARD to the Courier Company that will deliver it to you as to avoid a mistake on the delivery and also be ready to make the payment of $350 for the delivery charges.

We are looking forward to hear from you. Await your urgent attention to this matter.

Yours Sincerely

Dr. Kingsley Moghalu (OON)

Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability

TEL: +234-705-106-5644

compensationcentre2010@aliyun.com

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