419 scam: maako <user1@zao-agrokomplex.ru> TRANSFER REASONS

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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:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "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)
- "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.
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.
- +2348114086633
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.
- georgemanuel65@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: maako <user1@zao-agrokomplex.ru>
Reply-To: <georgemanuel90@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 22:46:00 +0300
Subject: TRANSFER REASONS

Attn:

After a serious thought, I decided to reach you directly and personally because I do not have anything against you, but your partners. I am the director of wire transfer/telex department of the central bank of Nigeria, Sometime in the past your Nigerian partners approached me through a friend of mine who works with one of the ministries here and requested that I assist them conclude a money transfer deal, they told me to help program the transfer to you.

According to them, they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge amount of United States dollars the money has been floating in the CBN suspense account since then. We agreed that once I do this, they would give me $100,000.00 and give me another us$100,000.00 when I release the fund to your account. When they saw that I have programmed it and your name has been approved among the list of those to be paid, instead of giving me the agreed deposit of us$100,000.00, they started avoiding me and resorted to threats. I immediately deleted the transfer code of the fund, which is only known to me because of my position, and released other beneficiary's fund and inheritance payments without yours. They became angry.

When they saw that their threat did not work, they started bribing other officials to get another approval to transfer the money to you without success. I want you to know that I am 100% responsible for the delay and obstructions because of their breach of trust.
If you doubt what I have just told you, and then consider what has transpired throughout your claim process, they continue to ask you to pay money and at the end no result and they still tell you to another fee with any result yet, they are simply wicked. Now if you want us to work together, these are my conditions.
No. 1: I will have 20% of the money because it is only the two of us left for now.

No. 2: You will assist my son to open an account in your country where I will pay in my own share. My son is presently in the United Kingdom studying for his masters.

No.3: It will be useless and mere waste of time and money if you continue with any other person, so we will conclude this transaction with utmost secrecy with the above telephone and email only.

No. 4: You will provide me with your private telephone, mobile and a private email to facilitate easy communication between you and me only. If these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as possible to let us finalize, so that the funds can be released to your account after due protocols has been observed, but if you are not interested, I advice you to forget the fund and stop wasting your time with your so called partners. You can contact me directly with the email address and telephone number below

NB: You can also get in touch with our US Fiduciary Agent

Name: Susan Fletcher
Email: s.fletcherfiduciary@outlook.com
Telefax: +1773-815-9921

Best regards.

George M. Maako
Wire Transfer/Telex Dept.
Tel: +2348114086633
Email: georgemanuel65@hotmail.com

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