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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: "ECONOMIC COMMUNITY FOR MICROSOFT TRUST FUNDS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <contactmrjames1@kimo.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:14:33 -0700
Subject: Congratulation,Your Email Has Been Selected.

ECONOMIC COMMUNITY FOR MICROSOFT TRUST FUNDS.


This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One
Million United States Dollars, ($1,000,000.00) for this year 2010
Lottery promotion which is organized by UNITED NATION DONATIONS.

U.N DONATIONS 2010, collects all the email addresses of
the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to
the Internet.we only select five people every Year as our winners
through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we
congratulate you for being one of the people selected. These are your
identification numbers:

Batch number.....................ECW 09102XN
Reff number.......................ECW35447XN
Winning number...................ECW09788
These numbers fall within your Location file, you are
requested to contact the events manager/Claims Department, send your
winning identification numbers to him,to enable him verify your parcel
Mr James Young
E-mail:contactmrjames1@kimo.com
Tell num:+60164681075
THIS FORM SHOULD BE FILED BY THE LOTTERY WINNER OF THE
STATED FUND FOR VERIFICATION BEFORE PROCESSING THE LOTTERY WINNING:
FULL NAME:_________
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:________
OCCUPATION:_________
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:___________
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:_______
TEL NO:__________
FAX:________
EMAIL:_________
WINNING NUMBER:________
BATCH NUMBER:__________
Thank you and Accept my heathy congratulations once again!
Yours faithfully,
Mr James Young.
Lottery Co-odinator

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