419 scam: "Mr. X" <hashida@shibaura-it.ac.jp> PAYMENT ALERT

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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:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "economic and financial crimes commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "diplomatic unit " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "diplomatic agent" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "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 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.
- www.legal2013@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. X" <hashida@shibaura-it.ac.jp>
Reply-To: www.legal2013@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 06:18:25 +0100
Subject: PAYMENT ALERT

ASSISTED PAYMENT REFUND (USD$850,000.00)

For your Immediate Attention:

This letter serves to officially inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of scam in the world with the help of African Union (AU), And United Nations Security Council (UNSC), European Union (EU),the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Internet crime complaint center(IC3) Central Intelligence agency (CIA) and FBI.

We were able to track down up to 281 scam artists globally from Canada, USA, Malaysia Poland, Mauritius,Nigeria and Indonesia) and Benin Rep and they are all in Government custody facing criminal and fraud charges.The United Nations boards of trustees on humanitarian aids instructed that part of the money recovered from the scammers should be shared among 57 lucky peoples around the world for compensation and you are on the list as your email address was found in one of the same Artist's computer hard-disk hence we are contacting you, maybe you have scammed or being tried to.

You can visits this website for your perusal:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/281-arrested-worldwide-coordinated-international-enforcement-operation-targeting-hundreds

So we told the Governor of the of the Central Bank to cash the US$850,000.00 Eight Hundred and fifty Thousand united state DOLLARS and he cash it and register it in cash with Our Interpol Diplomatic Service all the necessary arrangement of delivering your $US850,000.00 in cash with Private Jet was made with Nigeria National security Department and INTERPOL POLICE diplomatic UNIT .

This fund is in Security House of Economic and Financial Crimes COMMISSION Enforcement Network (EFCC) And there need to deliver your package to you. In fact I thank God very much for all the movement we made, every thing goes normally.As for our agreement with Central Bank Of Nigeria and Nigeria National security and INTERPOL POLICE they promised that your package will leave this Country tomorrow morning,But the Director of the Nigeria National security Department and INTERPOL POLICE Diplomatic unit said that they need you to reconfirm your contacts information to them to able them meet up with you immediately the INTERPOL POLICE Diplomatic Agent arrived to your CITY.

Please write a letter of application to the given address of Our Interpol Police Legal Attorney bellow.

NAME :MR MIKE ANDERSON
TELEPHONE:+1 202 888 3023
Email:( www.legal2013@gmail.com )

Please, Send them your contacts information to able them locate you immediately they arrived in your city with your fund.This is what they need from you.

1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE.
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE ; Refer to attachments 6.YOUR NEAREST AIRPORT

Please make sure you send this needed info's to the Legal Attorney of INTERPOL POLICE Legal unit with the address given to you.

Yours Faithful
FROM THE DESK OF Chief Mohammed Abubakar Adamu

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