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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.

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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million 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)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "ecowas " (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.
  
• 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.
  • +2347034626669
• 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.
  • scamvictims_fundtransfer1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ECOBANK PLC <scamvictims_fundtransfer1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:25:10 +0200
Subject: REF/PAYMENTS


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ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC
SCAM COMPENSATION OFFICE DEPARTMENT
ECOWAS NATIONS STATE/UNITED NATIONS
2008 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

YOUR REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 FOR $150,000 USD ONLY.

This is to bring to your notice that our bank (ECOBANK INTL. PLC) is
delegated by the ECOWAS/UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay victims of
scam $150,000 (One Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars Only). You are
listed/approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid
this amount.

On this faithful recommendations, want you to alert you that during the last
U.N. meetings held at ABUJA (WEST AFRICA), it was accessed/ accumulated of
reported cases of fraud that the money lost by various individuals to
Africans scam artists operating in syndicates all over the world today is
over $239 Million United States Dollars in year 2007 to fraud in USA alone.

http://www.techspot.com/news/29644-US-Citizens-lost-239-million-from-Internet-fraud-in-2007.html

In other to compensate victims, the ECOWAS/UNITED NATIONS is now paying
victims of such scam $150,000(One Hundred And Fifty THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH)
in accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations.

The payments are to be remitted by ECOBANK PLC NIGERIA as corresponding
paying bank under funding assistance by CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA. Benefactor
of this compensation award will have to be first cleared by ECOBANK and
confirmed as a victim from Africa Scam before scam payment can be effected.
We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get response from
you on how you can receive your compensation payment award.

Send a copy of your response via email or call your remittance officer
quoting your PAYMENT CODE NUMBER(ECB/06654).

NAME: MR.CLEMENT SYLVANIUS
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:
ECB/06654 $150,000 USD.
TEL :+234 7034 626669
+234 5287 8841
Email:scamvictims_fundtransfer1@hotmail.com

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. May Udoh
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER



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