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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: "infomation1 Gazeta.pl" <infomation1@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: revdr.daviscoker1@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:24:40 +0000
Subject: You are recomended


DEAR SIR,

Following reports and clamourings made to the World Bank and United Nations
by some Foreign contractors, to impose a sanction and close credit links to
many African countries as a result of the non-payment of the contracts they
executed with the African countries and in consonance with the incessant,
nefarious activities of some corrupt directors in their Government
Ministries who engage themselves in the illicit act of extorting
illegitimate fees from foreign contractors for their personal enrichment
without transferring the said executed contract funds to bonafide
beneficiaries.

This Memorandum is to notify you that the contracts you executed in
African will be settled by the ECOWAS from our initial Deposit Account .
You will be settled with the actual amount which you lost in your previous
transaction, including the actual Consignment/ Funds which you are supposed
to receive as a beneficiary.

After notifying you about this few mounths ago. We have been waiting for
your respond since to contact us to Confirm that you truly executed a
contract in Africa which we did not hear from you since that time. Then we
went on and deposited your contract payment with ECOWAS Welfare bank in
Ghana west Africa, it has been there for 3 Months now.

What you have to do now is to contact the ECOWAS Welfare bank in Ghana as
soon as possible to know when they will pay you of the contracts you
executed in Africa. For your information, we have paid for all Charges,
Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee showing that it is not a
Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attack in your Country.

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm the following to them:

1. Your Full Name and residential address.

2. Mobile or Telephone Number and Fax Number (for regular official contact).

3. Your inheritance funds value or contract funds value.

4. Amount which you lost previously.

Contact the ECOWAS Walfar bank with the following contact information

Email Address: Ecowas_welfarbankltd@4x.ro
Telephone/Fax : +(233) 0272648666

You are being contacted by this office today dated (21th June 2008) because
your Case File (A) is the very first File on our Settlement Files Cabinet
and we are ready to Pay you at this moment. From our Intelligent
investigations made secretly.

Your immediate compliance to this will expedite actions on your Payment
because here in this office, we have alot of listed victims to be settled.

As soon as we you contact the bank, they will advice you the full process
for your payment.

Regards,
Rev Dr. Davis Coker.
ECOWAS informations Dept.

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