419 scam: "Mr. Adamu" <policeheadng@daum.net> My Dear: Congratulations 213.159.3.51

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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:
- "western union" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "money gram" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- "moabad@daum.net" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "moabad@daum.net" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Adamu" <policeheadng@daum.net>
Reply-To: moabad@daum.net
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:19:32 -0700
Subject: My Dear: Congratulations 213.159.3.51

Police Command Headquarters
Address: Garki 2, Abuja
Motto: Fighting Fraud In Africa
Email: moabad@daum.net

My Dear: Congratulations,

This notification email is coming to you from Police Command Headquarters and please immediately you receive this message do let us know by responding back, because we need to carry on with this important work accordingly, we are writing to let you know that we have three gentlemen arrested in the Western Union/Money Gram yesterday name Eze John and Augustine Oge also fake Diplomat, and one of them came from Accra-Ghana and through our investigation we discovered your email address from one of them, which proved that they have scammed you before, The fact is that one of them made us clear that they did scammed you.

Please this office don't have much time for this issue for now. As you can see, we are very busy based on the mandate given to us by the present Government to arrest most of this hoodlums who have engaged themselves in scamming foreigners. be kind enough to reach us with all your contact details , you are also advised to send down your office address, your phone number and the list of amount you have spent to this internet scammerâ€™s here in Africa so far, first thing tomorrow morning we will lead them to court and from the court they will be sent to jail and court will reverse back all your money you have lost in the past including the recovered money/cars properties.

These individuals in our custody have confessed they have other syndicates communicating and scamming people in other parts of the world like, USA, Canada, Europe and Asia. Desist from any suspicious emails or phone calls from any of these places and report such to us.

You are hereby advised to email us back immediate with the needed details, including the amount they collected from you, if you don't know the exact amount you have spent under internet scammer's control, do advise us with your past experience with those scammers, but if you don't know the specific amount you have spent, do tell us that you don't know the amount so that the court will charge the Countries how much they will pay you as your re-Compensation. Please all we need is the truth and if you never spent any money to the scammers just make us clear. send the email here moabad@daum.net

We wait to have the details from you as soon as you get this mail. On what ever happened at the Court tomorrow, we will let you know. you can reach us any time, please don't forward this email to any person from Africa to avoid them using it to do their bad work on the name of West Africa Interpol Service please.

Thanks,

Inspector Mohammed Abubakar Adamu
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP)
F.C.T. Police Command Headquarters

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