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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: molo giber <molegibert14@msn.com>
Reply-To: <ucontactoffice1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 03:31:04 +0000
Subject: YOUR EMAIL HAS WON SOUTH AMERICAN LOTTERY PROMO



Internet E-mail Ecuador Lottery Promotion
Headquarters: 12 Provincia
Del Guayas, Ecuador


Dera-lucky,winner

We would like to congratulate you over your email success in our computer
ballot. This
Millennium is a scientific computer game in which email addresses were
selected at random, all participants were selected through a computer
balloting system drawn from over 100,000 companies and 50,000,000
individual email addresses worldwide. This is a promotional program aimed
at encouraging internet users, so you do not need to buy ticket to enter
for her and that the case of Ecuador Lottery Commission would like to
inform you that your e-mail received the sum $ 1,000,000.00 USD (One
million dollars Uniform State ) in cash credited to file with:

Number EBFL/4784878308/10.
Winning: 5 4 11 23 65 45 09 Bonus
Lot #: E0937 5783 010 9845

To claim your winnings prize, you should contact the designated agent of
the claims below as soon as possible for the immediate release of your
winnings with your full details below.

Dr. F. Moore France

E-mail: ucontactoffice1@gmail.com

1 Your full name:
2. Contact:
3. Tel / Mobile:
4. Fax:
5 Occupation:
6. Religion:
7. Gender:
8. Age:
9. Marital status:
10. Country:

Note: Any prize not claimed, or before 15days from the date of the drawing
will be your
or her prize void terminated. Please be sure to send all their victories
information: (ucontactoffice@gmail.com) on receipt of this letter.

Congratulations once again all of our employees .

Mr. Melo Gilberto
Secretary-General,
Promoting Ecuador Lottery


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