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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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Fraud email example:

From: ECO BANK PLC <ecobankecobank932@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ecobanqkeplc@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:54:21 +0400
Subject: From: ECO BANK NIGERIA PL C

From: ECO BANK NIGERIA PL C info@ecobank.org.
URL: www.ecobank.com.

Subject: YOU’R FUND


MR.ERNEST C. EBI, WIRE TRANSFER DEPARTMENT ECO BANK PLC OF NIGERIA WEST AFRICA.

OUR REF: E C O B R TD/100000767-23

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY, RE: DELIVERY OF YOUR ATM CARD/TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND.

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract / inheritance file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract /inheritance payment. Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and you will have to stop this act if you wish to receive your payment immediately.

After the board meeting, we resolved in finding a solution to your payment, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER where you will open an account with our bank to enable you transfer the money to your account you are to chose the one that you will like to use, this was given by our president, President Good luck Ebele Azikwe Jonathan (G C F R) Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The presidency also issued an ultimatum to deliver funds to beneficiaries as long as they fulfill all necessary obligations. This card center will send you your ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, the maximum is ($3,000) Three Thousand US Dollars (in three transactions of $1,000) per day.

If you like to receive your fund this way, you are advised to get back to me with the following information below to enable me get back to you quickly with full details on how to receive your card. Note that the total fund in your ATM account is $10.5 million USD.

Meanwhile as demanded by the United Nations money transfer act of 2004, (section 4, subsection us1138 paragraph 12-13) and the electronic communication act 2004 (section 8, subsection 24, paragraph k-22c); you are mandated to provide us with the following details again for verification with what we have on file before we can effect your transfer in order to make sure we are not paying the wrong beneficiary.

NAME: FULL CONTACT ADDRESS
PURPOSE OF PAYMENT
CELL PHONE NUMBER

You will be receiving your funds via ATM card which will be sent to you from our bank head quarters directly to your given address we have on file. Note that you will have to take care of the transfer charges before we can affect your transfer of your funds to you.

It is my pleasure to inform you that you are not the only beneficiary that we paid through this method we previously paid our American and Canadian beneficiary which I am forwarding their tracking numbers for verifications. Kindly, track it online on WWW.FedEx.com for more clarification and verification. 856467606835 856467606570 858407652831 856475238735

The federal government under the ministry of finance with the world bank and IMF (international monetary fund) has adopted this administrative measure owing to various complains/petitions received from beneficiaries owning to the delays in receiving their contract/inheritance funds/ATM cards as expected.

It might interest you to note that the swift credit card system of payment was adopted to reduce the administrative protocols as regards (cost of transfer, vat, taxes and levies), it was adopted to help beneficiaries who are financially down, who are not capable to meet up with the obligation of paying banks as a result of administrative fees and handling charges. ''the swift credit card system will only cost the beneficiary 'cost of shipment' via courier company such as DH L, FedEx and ups and insurance of his/her package. *Delivery fee via Courier Service is $105. *Insurance Charge: $170 *Total Charge payable: $275 if you want to open any account and transfer your fund the account opening fee is 316USD.

Once payment is received your ATM card and your pin number will be sent to you immediately via any courier service of your choice to the address you provided to this office. Note that it takes just three working days for you to receive your ATM card via FedEx as soon as we receive your fees for the insurance and delivery of your ATM card to you.

You are to keep your pin secret as it is your access to your funds in your ATM card. You are not expected to pay any other fee as this is a one time fee and this office received instructions from the Presidencies committee on foreign payments to release all funds with out any father delay to its beneficiaries.

All documents showing that you are the rightful beneficiary to your funds are currently on my desk and you are not expected to pay any fee apart from the insurance and delivery of your ATM card to you as mandated. If you are ready do get back to us and we will instruct you on how to send the $275. We shall be expecting to receive your information and you have stop any further communication with anybody or office.

On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me with the above mentioned information. Thanks for your co-operation. MR.ERNEST C. EBI Telephone: +234.80-80624439. PRIMARY BANK EMAIL; eeccobancksplc@gmail.com WIRE TRANSFER DEPARTMENT ECO BANK OF NIGERIA PLC WEST AFRICA.


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