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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:

Fraud email example:

From: droy@hathway.com
Reply-To: georgewilliam99@aim.com
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:35:48 +0100
Subject: Cash Grant/Ecowas Donations Yearly Award



ECOWAS DONATIONS 2009, collects all the email addresses of the people
that are active online,among the millions that subscribed to the
Internet.we only select five people every Year as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate
you for being one of the people selected.

You are to contact the events manager on or before your
date of Claim,Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement
Centre.Ecowas Donations Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from
date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any
prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................ECW 09102XN
Reff number.......................ECW35447XN
Winning identification Code.....ECW09788

These numbers fall within your Geographical Location ,here is your
donation file Number 234\ECW003 you are requested to contact the event
manager/Claims Department,with your send your file Number 234\ECW003 and
your Winning identification Code.....ECW09788.Upon contact your claims
manager Mr George William will verify and validate your claims

You are required to fillin the below information when contacting Mr George
William

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
1:Full Name:------------------
2:Home Address:-----------
3:Sex:----------------------------
4:Age:----------------------------
5:Tel Number:---------------
6:Country:----------------------
7:Winning number:---------
8:Occupation:---------------

(CONTACT FINANCE DEPARTMENT)
Name:Mr George William
E-mail: georgewilliam99@aim.com
Contact Tel: +2348052092942

Once again congratulations...
Cordially,
Mrs.Maria Adimola
Online Co-coordinator.

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