419 scam: rroot@sococ.com Your Immediate Confirmation

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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:
- "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)
- ",500,000" (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)
- "fund beneficiary" (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)
- "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.

Fraud email example:

From: rroot@sococ.com
Reply-To: abubakarsaraki2000@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:12:52 -0700
Subject: Your Immediate Confirmation

Office of the Senate President
Federal Republic of Nigeria
4th Floor, New Senate Wing,
National Assembly Complex,
Three Arms Zone, PMB 141 FCT Abuja.

Attn Sir/Madam

I am Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki the Senate President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria. I decided to contact you because of the
prevailing financial report reaching my office from United States of
America concerning your payment. In the course of my investigation as
the Senate President and the director of payment verification /
implementation committee, I came across your name as unpaid fund
beneficiary in the record of the central bank of Nigeria and other
banks that are suppose to get your funds released to you. My committee
was set up by the Senate payment reconciliation committee to verify
and scrutinize all outstanding debts owed to our foreign beneficiaries
in accordance to the information received from the United States
government and other countries over unpaid huge debts owed to
Foreigners.

Having seen your file and my further questioning to the officials of
the central bank of Nigeria and ministry of finance today as to why
your payment is still pending reveals the rot and corruption in the
system. The bank officials told me that the reason why you havenâ€™t
received your payment is due to your inability to pay for the required
charges for transfer of funds to your account. From my investigation I
discovered that these bank officials deliberately refused to release
your principal fund sum $10,500,000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) because they want your fund to remain
trapped in the bank, while they continue to extort money from
beneficiaries under some flimsy excuse.

Meanwhile there is a change of account particulars on your beneficiary
file from Mr Wong Lee Chen of Laxminarayan Investments Ltd Seoul South
Korea with an application forwarded to receive your contract payment
sum $10,500,000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) on your behalf s i was told today by the bank officials.
Please as a matter of urgency, you are urgently required to confirm to
me if you are aware or known anything about this.

1. Did you instruct Mr Wong Lee Chen of Laxminarayan Investments Ltd
Seoul South Korea, whose information is below, to claim and receive
the payment on your behalf?

2. Did you sign any "Deed of Assignment" in his favor thereby making
him the current beneficiary with the following account details?

Account Name: Laxminarayan Investments Ltd,
Bank Name: FALCON PRIVATE BANK AG,
Switzerland,
A/C Number: 42701097,
Swift Code: UEBECHZZ.

Finally, you are hereby advised to indicate to this honorable office
with immediate effect, if you are the person that instructed Mr Wong
Lee Chen of Laxminarayan Investments Ltd Seoul South Korea to come for
the claim of these funds to enable me endorse for the final payment.

Best Regards

SENATOR ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI
SENATE PRESIDENT
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

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