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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: Joy Ukazi <joyukazi20@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:46:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: DARLING THIS IS THE ECOBANK CONTACT FOR VERIFICATION.


My Dearest,
I thank you once again today for your lovely mail to me,
your kind response as i am as well  be sincere and honest to you till
death if only you will be kind to me and have me as your own, as the
bank ask me to look for a foreign partner to assist me and i am more
prayerfull and confident in contacting you and never contacted
anyone,you are the only person i have made this known to and i will
assure to provide whatever the bank might needed,
 hence all the
documents are with me here the death certificate of my late father and
the deposit certificate of account are with me.I have here some
documents which i will give you when the time comes.
 Please honey,i
have not told any body about the existence of this money and i will
like you to please keep it secret to other people because since it is
(MONEY)  we should be very carefull on it.
Remember i trusted  you
that is why i am giving you all this informations! , I have informed
the bank about my plans to claim this money and the only thing they
told me is to look for a foreign partner as i said early who will stand
on my behalf due to my refugee status and the laws of this country.
(1)


To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into
your bank account.
(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to
your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently.
I
need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the
whole money as yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still
want a percentage, i am willing to offer you, 30 % of the total money
as compensation for your assistance. Please tell me if you feel the
percentage i offered is not ok by you,
while 10% will be set aside
to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer,
internal revenue tax and also telephone bills, while 60% will be for me
towards any profitable
investment in your country. All I require from
you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction
through.

In this regard, i will like you to contact the bank
immediately with this information,tell them that you are my foreign
partner and that you want to know the possibilities of assisting me
transfer ( my $4.7 million dollars)deposited by my late father of which
i am the next of kin, to your country without any problem, that this
money should be
(transfered) into your account in your country. The
contact
informations of the bank is as follows

                        


HEAD OF OPERATION
                                 ECOBANKPLC
                         


     Inforecobank@inMail24.com
 E-MAIL-                 


infor.dept_ecobank@rocketmail.com
                         


Ecobank_customercares_services@24.com



SENEGAL
8,


Avenue
Léopold
Sédar Senghor
PB
7895
Centre Douanes (CD)
Dakar - SENEGAL
Phone: (221) 765-908-158
Fax:(221)


82 447 01

TRANSFERING OFFICER,
Dr,Mr MIKE  CAMARA.
Telephone


contacts:
00221-768-899-757.

Let


them know
that you are my partner for the transfer of the fund in the account
details; Account name:Dr Laurant Gorwor
Account number: 
018396030182-70
Amount deposited: $ 4.7M
Next of kin: Joy Gorwor
Swift



Code: (EBS0088XX5STD98 )

Contact
them now on how to (transfer the $4.7 millon dollars) deposited by my
late father of which i am the next of kin. I have maped out 30% for
your assistance and 10% for any expenses that might come up in this
transfer.I will equally need you in every area of my
life plus
investing this money since, i am still too young to manage it. But my
main problem is to complete my education.
As
i told you before,this camp is just like a prison and my prayer is to
move out from here as soon as possible. Please make sure that you
contact the bank so that, after the (transfer) you can come and pick me
or send some money from that money for me to prepare my traveling
documents to meet with you in your country.
Awaiting to hear from you
soonest! i will call you soon with the number  you droped ok or you call again +221-775-895-755
Yours
forever in love Joy gorwor



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