419 scam: "GABRIEL NELSON." <test@nihalfoundation.org> Re:We need your help !!!

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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:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
- "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- "lagos" (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.
- +2348026730455 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "GABRIEL NELSON." <test@nihalfoundation.org>
Reply-To: <unrep.019@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 02:52:28 +0100
Subject: Re:We need your help !!!

N.G.O. Registration No. D.S.W./1379
Certificate of Incorporation No.G-7206

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are the CHILDREN POSTRITY AID, a non profit, non sectional, non political N.G.O based in the Lagos City,of west-Africa.

OUR OBJECTIVES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

A. What is of paramount importance is our obligation to pay the cost of educating the children when the parents are unable to, and fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa as a whole.

B. We advocate the rights o children in the line with international conventions

C. We protect the rights of children through a long term plan of building their capacity.

D. We provide self reliance at adulthood through career development and technical skill training.

E. We protect the lives of the children against S.T.D and HIV-AIDS pandemic.

E. We raise consciousness about the effects on environmental degradation on economic development.

C.P.A. would really appreciate your views and thoughts of the above mentioned objectives as C.P.A. believe very strongly in bringing joy into the faces of under-privileged, deprived, refugees, able and disabled children in Global and other parts of Africa.

C.P.A. is writing to your organisation primarily to affiliate with your honourable organization to work together to help these children to be what God wants them to be.

Please, these 483 children, made up of India and Liberian refugee's children, lack educational logistics such as children's literature books, computer books, used computers, educational toys, children's clothing and any thing that will be of a great help to these children that none of us doesn't know what they will be come in posterity.

You can visit our website:http://www.nihalfoundation.org

Contact information:
Telephone number:+2348026730455
GABRIEL NELSON.

(PROJECT DIRECTOR) WEST AFRICA

I thank you so much in anticipating for your prompt reply.

Yours in the Lord’s Vineya

GABRIEL NELSON.
(PROJECT DIRECTOR)

Sent in by James Walker 05/05/02

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