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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: "ECOWAS OFFICE" <info@donation.com>
Reply-To: ecowas_donationclaims@prokonto.pl
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 02:21:13 -0500 (ECT)
Subject: ECOWAS DONATION PROGRAM




Ecowas donations 2011
101 Yakubu Gowon Cresent
Asokoro District P.M.B. 401
&n bsp; Abuja, Nigeria.
Tel: +2347033366592

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eight hundred and
fifty Thousand United States Dollars, ($850,000.00) for this year 2011
Lottery promotion which is organized by ECOWAS DONATIONS 2011.

ECOWAS DONATIONS 2011, 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.

You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of
Claim,Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement
Centre.Ecowas Donations Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from
date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any
prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

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 event manager/Claims Department, send your winning
identification numbers to him,to enable him verify your claims.

(CONTACT FINANCE DEPARTMENT)
Name:Mr.Powel Brown
E-mail:ecowas_donationclaims@prokonto.pl
TEL: +2347033366592

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again


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