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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: "www.ikea.nl" <ikea_infromations@yahoo.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:11:03 +0100
Subject: Congratulations you won call to confirm (NL-212-6288, EL-300-36)

Foundation's Officer,
Stichting INGKA Foundation,
The Netherlands.
http://www.ikea.nl/

Dear Sir,Madam

NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID
CONGRATULATIONS.

This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of trustees of
the above International charity organization based in the Netherlands as one
of
the final recipients of a Cash Grant/Donation for your own
personal,education and business development

The Dutch-registered Stichting INGKA Foundation is named after Kamprad, and
owns INGKA Holding, the parent company for all IKEA stores. The charitable
foundation was reported by the business newspaper, the Economist in May
2006 to be technically the world's wealthiest charity - with an estimated
value of at
least US$36 billion in 2006 (larger than the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation) - but its primary purpose is, by some, believed to be corporate
tax-avoidance
and anti-takeover protection for IKEA.Kamprad is chairman of the
foundation.Having been rated as the biggest charity foundation in Europe for
the year
2007,the foundation has decided to randomly select email addresses that
would benefit from this year's donation/award.

Stichting INGKA Foundation in conjunction with the United Nations
Organization (UNO) and the European union, is giving out a yearly donation
of One Hundred
Million United States Dollars as specific Donations/Grants to 50 lucky
international recipients worldwide in different categories for their
educational
pursuit,health care,personal Business development and uplift of their
enviroment. These funds are freely given to you to use for your business
educational
and personal development, and at leats 30% to be used by you to develop a
part of your enviroment, as this is a yearly program, which is a measure of
universal development strategy, and eradication of poverty.

Please kindly note that you are not the only beneficiary in your country
this year, and your country is not the only country that is benefiting from
this
donation, as beneficiaries have been chosen
from countries from all continents.

The idea of this donation is that within ten years from now, there will be
notable richness among many unusual people around the world.

This will give many people the opportunity to get their lives to a stage
where they had always wanted. Kindly note that you will only be chosen to
receive
the donation once.which means that, subsequent yearly donation will not get
to you again, so its your choice to spend the donation wisely on something
that
will last you a long time. And please do not bother following up this
email, if you have
benefited from this donation in previous years.

Based on the random selection exercise of internet service providers(ISP)
and millions of Super market cash invoices worldwide, you were selected
among the
lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$2,000,000.00(Two Million
United States Dollars) as charity donations/aid from the Stichting INGKA
Foundation
and the UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament.Note that,
your email was selected from either the internet, or a Shop's cash invoice
around
your area in which you might have purchased something from.

You are required to expeditiously Contact the Executive Secretary below for
qualification documentation and processing of your claims, from Monday
through
Sunday.

On contact with this officer, you'll be given your donation pin number
which you will use in collecting the funds.

Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers (NL-212-6288,
EL-300-36) in all discussions.

***********************************
Executive Secretary,
Mr. Tony Ivan
Tel:+31 626 423 111
Fax:+31 847 292 019
Email:ikea_info@yahoo.com
**********************************

Please note that this donations/Grants are strictly administered by
"European Union" under delegated powers from the UNO. you are by all means
hereby advised
to keep this whole information confidential until you have been able to
collect your donation, as there have been many cases of double and
unqualified claim,
due to beneficiaries informing third parties about his/her donation.

Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective beneficiaries, not
later that 15 days after notification, as failure to do so will be to that
particular beneficiary cancelled and its donation reserved for next years
receipients.

On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest congratulations

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Angela Vandersar.
Foundation officer.

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