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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: ecobank_lnt10@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:43:59 -0300 (ARGSL-ST)
Subject:




ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC
SCAM COMPENSATION OFFICE DEPARTMENT
ECOWAS NATIONS STATE/UNITED NATIONS
2009 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

YOUR REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 FOR $500,000 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 $500,000 (Five Hundred 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 2008 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 $500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only 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.

You are to send the following informations to your remittance officer for
further verifications.

Your Name.___________________________
Address.___________________________
Phone .___________________________
Amount Defrauded.___________________________
Country.________________________

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

NAME: MR.KEN OSAZUWA
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654
ECB/06654 $500,000 USD.
TEL : +234 8053086656
Email: ecobank_lnt10@yahoo.com.hk

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. FELICIA DUKE
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

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