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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2289924688 (Togo, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS.LYNDA Ofodile" <mrs.lynda_ofodile41@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mrs.lynda_ofodile@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:34:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT ECOWAS SUPPLY CONTRACT.


W&W BEVERAGES CO, LTD.
20 RUE DE COMMERCE
LOME-TOGO
WEST-AFRICA.
TEL/FAX: +228-9924688
Email:

Dear Sir/Madam,

URGENT ECOWAS SUPPLY CONTRACT.

Your good name and address have been recommended to us as an authorized
manufactures/exporters of various items from your country. To introducing our selves to you, we are agent/consultants, wholesaler distributors, manufacturers representative importation general.

Presently we are actively engaged in sourcing of the under listed items for an urgent contract supply to the Economic Community of West-Africa States(ECOWAS)and we have been in this line of business for many successful years satisfying our numerous customers and government with all their needs. Our recent expansion and desire to promote trade and industry in your country has afforded us the opportunity to contact
your esteem company for an urgent contract supply of the under listed items to the ECOWAS.

Renew Medical Equipments, Furnitures,Tires, Building Materials, Stainless steel products, Pharmaceutical Products, T-Shirts / Polo,Electronics,Cameras,Fax Machines, Cosmetics, Industrial Machines, Sanitary Wares, Rice, Cement, Beverages, Steel products and general goods from your country.

Please if you can supply us with any of the above listed items, do not hesitate to inform us by mail so that we can stop further negotiations with other foreign companies for an urgent supply on any of the captioned items.

Looking forward hearing from you.

Best regards,

Mrs. Lynda Ofodile (Agent)
W&W BEVERAGES CO, LTD.
20 RUE DE COMMERCE
LOME-TOGO
WEST-AFRICA.
TEL/FAX: +228-9924688



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