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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "attorneys " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: DAMIEN EDGAR <contact_damien_edgar@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:24:33 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: ADVISE





THE FONDATION DE FRANCE(FDF).
16 Rue Lanterne,
Lyon 69001, France.


Attention::Winner ,
Qualification number: FDF-444-6647-9163

This is to acknowledge the receipt of the requested data and the confirmation of your reliability in this universal programme. You should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of this year's lucky donation recipient. You have been selected amongst the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$1,350,000.00 (One Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) as donations aid from the Fondation De France, ECOWAS, EU and the UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. Your email address was selected randomly from over 100,000 internet websites or a shop's cash invoice around your area in which you might have purchased something from.

I have a wife, so i'll never deceive you because i will never want my wife be in a fraud situation. This is a life time opportunity, please do not let it slip off your hands. So i will please advise you to contact the following address below. This is for real, it iS not a scam.



I have forwarded the produced data, to the head office of the Fondation De France (FRANCE) and the ECOWAS head office (Organisation assigned to handle your payment) in NIGERIA.

The objective is to make a notable change in the standard of living of people all around the Universe (From America to Europe, Asia to Africa and all around), probably like in the next 20yrs.

Kindly note that you will only be choosen to receive the donation once, which means that subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again so take your time and thought in spending the donation wisely on something that will last you a long time. Recipients are only eligible to be awarded
this donation once.

Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites and millions of supermarket cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$1,350,000.00 as charity donations/aid from the Fondation De France, ECOWAS, EU and the UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. (Note that all beneficiaries email addresses were selected randomly from over 100,000 internet websites or a shop's cash invoice around your area in which you might have purchased something from).

The Fondation De France has discovered a huge number of double claims due to beneficiaries informing close friends relatives, attorneys and third parties about their donations. As a result of this, this close friends relatives, attorneys and third parties try to claim the prize on behalf of the real recipients. The Fondation De France has lost millions of dollars to this fraudulent people, and have reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Fondation De France, will result to the cancelation of that particular donation, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real beneficiary, as it is taken that the real recipient was the informer to the double claimer about the donation. So you are hereby advised once more to keep your informations strictly confidential until your claim has been fully recovered.


Included in this letter is your donation pin number to be used when claiming your donation. Your donation pin number is "21556770665477". This number should be kept strictly confidential by you, as you will use it in receiving your donation.
You are to immediately contact the Payment officer in the ECOWAS office in Abuja, Nigeria for claim of your donation. Please do contact the officer in the below information.

CONTACT INFOS.
MR. FRANK ADEMOLA
COUNSELLOR, ECOWAS PAYMENT HEAD OFFICE ABUJA.
PLOT 4, BLOCK 23,
GARKI, ABUJA.NIGERIA
EMAIL: accountoffice@ecowasdepartment.org
TEL: 009234 802 381 7094

Kindly make sure that you give Mr. Frank Ademola a call with the above telephone number after you have sent him an email or before you send him an email so that he could inform you on what you meant be needed to do.

We would also inform you that this donation programme is legit and you should have no fear that you are been scammed because this organsition has been on since 1977 and we have never had a case of frauding our grant winners.

You have to beware of internet scamist becaue they have used our organisation name to scm innocent people and have them send there hard earn money with sending them there grant parcel but I am letting you know that this is for real so you do not have to be worried you shall receive your grant parcel.All you have to do is to make sure you do whatsoever the Ecowas Counsellor ask you to do because that is the person incharge of the release of your grant parcel to you this office only verify to make sure that we are contacting the rightful recipient of the funds.

Do note that on contact with MR. FRANK ADEMOLA, you are to provide him with your
Full Name:
Personal Mobile Phone Number:
Donation pin number as stated above:
Residential address:
This will enable the ECOWAS office to verify your claim with the files which has been sent to them.

Note: Make sure you give the Ecowas office a call for Mr. Frank Ademola to inform you what you will need to do so that your donation/grant parcel will be sent to you immediately.

Please contact MR. FRANK ADEMOLA immediately. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Signed, Mr Damien Edgar.
Foundation Secretary





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