419 scam: "African Development Bank Goups"<drazell220@gmail.com> Your Payment Acknowledgment

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "African Development Bank Goups" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cole.steven8@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 15:46:23 -0300
Subject: Your Payment Acknowledgment

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP
Eco Bank of Benin Plc
96 Recette Principal, Cotonou, Benin.
African Development Bank (Eco Bank Plc)
Email-contact: eco.plc.ng@skymail.mn
www.ecobank.com
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The Eco Bank Plc kindly write to inform you that the African Development Bank Group (ADBG) in conjunction with African Union (AU) has bought over all the foreign debts within the African region in what is called DEBT-BUY-BACK AGREEMENT. Under this circumstance we have recall all payment file within African Continent only. It was possibly due to the pressure from the International Community, American Government, World Bank and the IMF. Coupled with the Crisis in African countries had prompted our contact to you in this first quarter of the year 2011.

The Eco Bank Plc (www.ecobank.com) and (ADBG) are only working on the files approved by Solomon smith Banner as we have no trust on files submitted by local banks in Africa. All your data has been verified by SOLOMON SMITH BANNER.

Please note that this information's must be kept secret to avoid hackers entering into our data base and steal information of beneficiaries.

All payment process must be done in the bank; Back door transaction will not be accepted. No rigorous system involved. Payment should be on Bank to bank transaction, E-payment system.

You are required to reconfirm your information's correctly (Amount, Name, address, phone only), no bank details required at this stage. Get your informations forwarded to us via mail eco.plc.ng@skymail.mn

Thanks for your co-operation

Cole Steven
Resident Representative
Multinational organization providing funding and technical assistance throughout Africa.

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