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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam
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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.
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)
- "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
- "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.
- Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
- 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.
- +2348062335499 (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.
- debtspayment02@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Senator Ehigie Edobor Uzamere <debtspayment011@gmail.com>
Reply-To: debtspayment02@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:42:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: Your Payment NotificationOFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
GARKI - ABUJA NIGERIA
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Senator Ehigie Edobor Uzamere
Senate Chairman on Local and Foreign Debts
Garki, Abuja â Nigeria
Phone: +234-806-2335499
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This is to notify you of your Immediate Contract/Inheritance Payment Number: AV/FGN/MIN/0010. On behalf of the entire staff of Central Bank of Nigeria, and the Federal Government of Nigeria in collaborated with the Authorities, who are in charge of foreign and local payments. We Apologies for the delay of your payment, the Inconveniences and Inflict that we might have indulge you through.
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Please as a matter of urgency you are required to verify the following information and get back to me if you are aware or know anything about this as we are having some serious problems with your payment which have demoralized us. In respect to this one Mr. John Tsai submitted an application that you authorized your funds to be paid to him on your behalf with a report that you are paralyzed as a result of the ghastly motor accident you had some months back and we would like to confirm the below.
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1. Did you instruct one Mr. John Tsai or anyone from your family, or relation to claim and receive the payment on your behalf?
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(2) Were you involved in a motor accident?
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(3) Did you sign any "Deed of Assignment" in his favor thereby making him the current beneficiary of your payment with the following account details stated above? Or did you user him any âPower of Attorneyâ to claim the funds?
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Also the delay in transferring the funds is due to the request for a power of attorney authorizing him to pursue this payment on your behalf. He asked for a week so as to submit the document, but up till now we have not received any of the documents from him which raised my contact to you to find out. Kindly confirm to me if you truly authorized this act or not as I sense that your funds are been diverted which is in total of $10,530,000.00usd. You are highly required to get back to me a.s.a.p to this email debtspayment02@gmail.com or you can call me on my direct number above.
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Anticipating your prompt response.
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Senator Ehigie Edobor Uzamere
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