419 scam: "Bernd Frieze" <info@usa.org> YOUR ATTENTION IS NEEDED

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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:
- "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.
- +2349091270858 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- josephadam240@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Bernd Frieze" <info@usa.org>
Reply-To: <josephadam240@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 23:38:23 +0400
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION IS NEEDED

THE PRESIDENCY FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN CONTRACT PAYMENT
DATE: 09/01/2018

Your Attention is needed:

I am Bernd Frieze, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Payment,
in cognizance with the credit cover of CBN/YOUR BANK, duly adopted by
the Senate Committee on Foreign Payment as requested for a fund
movement cover in your favor. I am compelled to advice you to contact:
Dr Adams Joseph, Chairman Foreign Contract verification & Transfer
Committee (FCVTC) E-mail: (josephadam240@yahoo.com) immediately you
read this email. In view of several efforts already made by us to
contact you for the following reasons, My Office desks have just
received a sworn affidavit to re-route your payment into a new bank
account as stated CHASE BANK and the Account #: 760575881. Please,
confirm to our department if you have instructed anyone to appoint an
attorney/agent on your behalf. Please, confirm if you have authorized
us through your agents to issue cash Draft payment valued US$20M
remittance on your behalf. Also confirm if you have authorized your
attorney to change your name to Loren Robert Davis, and following
particulars stated below:

Account name: LOREN ROBERT DAVIS
Account number: 760575881
Routing number: 123271978
Home address: 201 W OWYHEE AVE APT 1 HOMEDALE ID, 83628
Phone number: 415-873-8674
Bank Name: CHASE BANK
Bank address: 50 2ND ST S NAMPA 83651 BANK
Bank phone number: 208-465-3242

Also re-confirm your information, Your ID, Private Telephone and Fax
number, your e-mail address, Office and 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 fund 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 information was not there. Therefore, you are
hereby advised to contact (Dr Adams Joseph) Foreign Contract
Verification & Transfer Committee on this (josephadam240@yahoo.com)
regarding 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 phone or e-mail
to avoid interception. And here is his private phone number:
+234-909-127-0858.

Best regards.
Bernd Frieze
Chairman Investigation Department (NID)

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