419 scam: "Eze"<vote.eze@locamail.com> Ladies and Gents, please vote for my initiative?

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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!

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This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Eze" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <agreg1840@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 03:09:40 -0700
Subject: Ladies and Gents, please vote for my initiative?

Ladies and Gents, please vote for my initiative

smuth eze 5/14/16 Keep this message at the top of your inbox

Warm Greetings,

This is actually me by the way (Eze Ndubuka) an I need a quick favour please!

I've entered a competition for smart business ideas organised by Virgin. My idea is an Online Football Network that will allow aspiring players find scouts and also allow non professionals find team mates near them for unofficial games.

I need loads of votes to get my initiative accepted into Stage 2 please. So your help will be greatly appreciated *:) happy

All you need to do is:

- Click the link below

- Click Vote (it will show a page to log in with Facebook - this is just to verify you're a real person)

- Click to Log In with Facebook

- Click Vote again

Here's the link:

BallSkillz Football Network | Virgin Media Business Voom 2016

BallSkillz Football Network | Virgin Media Business Voom 2016

An online football network: to help aspiring talents get spotted; and to help regular folk find friendly kick-ab...

Thanks for your time amigos and amigas!

Kind regards and God Bless

Eze

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