:: Stringing-along 419 scammers for my amusement ::

This is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the scam published here or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

ECOWAS FINANCIAL GRANT UNIT - 2010 FINANCIAL GRANTS PROGRAMMES | Fake Grant Scam

This is an internet scam! DON'T send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Mallory, Francine <mallorf@gcsnc.com> Subject:     Ref number: ECW2345XN Date:     01/17/2010 10:33:52 AM Dear Winner, Winning Notification This is to notify you that your email has won $1,000,000.00 USD for this year 2010 Financial Grants Programmes which is organized by Ecowas Financial Grant Unit in which e-mail addresses are picked randomly by computerised balloting, powered by the Internet. Your email address was amongst those chosen for this period. Batch number: ECW 34876XN Ref number: ECW2345XN Winning number: ECW4535 Draw (#1187) To claim your prize, please contact: Claims Officer MR. FREDERICK KAMIYO Tel:+2348029196261 Email: ecowasclaims@nl.rogers.com ecowasclaims1@btinternet.com with your Name, Full Address, Country, Gender, Occupation and Phone. Yours faithfully, Melanie A. Hook   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

ECOWAS FINANCIAL GRANT UNIT - 2010 FINANCIAL GRANTS PROGRAMMES | Fake Grant Scam

It's important to note that any real people and / or legitimate organizations whose actual names or other details appear in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! Scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help make themselves and their scam appear legitimate.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, bargain gold dust / diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

To see what this site is really all about, visit The Games section.

NOTE TO DUMBASS SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail will get mistakenly published here as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your crap mistakenly published on this website as a 419 advance fee scam, the solution is simple. Don't mail your crap to harvested e-mail addresses.