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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: Nancy Coveliers <nancy.coveliers@eurocontrol-int.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:51:33 +0800
Subject: remittance proof eurocontrol


Dear Accounts Payable,

This is to inform you that we have not received the payment of the
following invoice numbers:
IC-21-16-HE-2/1602/01
-IC-21-16-HE-2/1603/01
-IC-21-16-HE-2/1604/01.
these are invoices for the months of June,July and August 2016.You are
hereby advised to forward a copy of the remittance advise and proof of
payment made against these invoices so as to enable us update your account
status accordingly and to advise accordingly because we have made some
changes due to logistics.please use your good offices to respond promptly
to these requests so as to enable us verify and reconcile your accounts
accordingly .
Thanks for your cooperation.

we await your  urgent response.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs.Nancy Coveliers
Financial Assistant
CRCO/General Accounts
E-mail:nancy.coveliers@eurocontrol-int.net
EUROCONTROL
96 Rue de la Fusée
1130 Brussels
BELGIUM
www.eurocontrolin.net[1]  

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addressee only and may contain privileged and confidential information. If
you have received this e-mail in error,please notify the sender by e-mail
reply immediately and delete it from your system. You may not copy this
message and its attachments or disclose its contents to any other person,
use it for any purpose or store it by any means. Any views and/or opinions
expressed in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily represent those of the Eurocontrol . Eurocontrol accepts no
liability for the content of this e-mail, or for the consequences of any
actions taken on the basis of the information provided, unless this is
confirmed through official correspondence signed by a Eurocontrol
authorized officer. Although this e-mail and its attachments are believed
to be free from virus, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure
that they are virus free.

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