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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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Fraud email example:

From: "powerball00007@terra.es" <powerball00007@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:10:29 +0100 (MET)
Subject: ***EUROPEAN UNION/ECOWAS PROMO*** CONGRATULATIONS



ISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPO
INNOVAZIONE ACLI
Organizzazione Non Governativa delle
ACLI per la Cooperazione Internazionale
Sede Nazionale
http://www.ipsia.acli.it/
Via G. Marcora,
18/20 - 00153 Roma

ISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPO INNOVAZIONE ACLI!!!

Attention Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the ISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPO INNOVAZIONE ACLI yearly donations. Organisers of the United Nations, European Union And Ecowas Yearly Donations.
Your e-mail address attached to TICKET NUMBER: 1416-4612-750 with SERIAL NUMBER:3187-17 drew the LUCKY DREW NUMBERS:31-17-8-28-55 (bonus no.25), which subsequently won you the donation in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of $750,000(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars) in cash credited to file .This is from a total cash prize of ( $75,000 000 ), shared amongst the one Hundred (100) lucky winners in this category. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, corporate bodies and consumer shops in all localities. That are listed online. This promotion takes place yearly. Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your $750,000 (Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars) will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe, Africa Or America. Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact her. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your donation information confidential till your Donation is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your donation. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim,Please contact our agent.

Mr.McGbenga (Sir) Farlane.
EMAIL ADDRESS: claimsagent_mcgbenga@yahoo.it

Endeavour to contact him with the following informations:

1,Full Names:.............
2,Contact Address:.............
3,Telephone Number:..............
4,Age:..............
5,Sex:................
6,Nationality:............
7,Occupation:..............
8, Donation information i,e ticket number, batch number, reference number, serial number e.t.c

Yours faithfully,
McGbenga (Sir) Farlane
Donations co-ordinator and chairperson,
ISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPO
INNOVAZIONE ACLI





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