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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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Fraud email example:

From: "David Morgan" <mr_davidmorgan0017@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:50:57 +0000
Subject: REPLY NOW

Strictly Confidential

From Mr.David Morgan (JP)
Chairman,Ecowas Contractor's
Debt Reconciliation Board
Accra - Republic of Ghana
Direct Tel:+233 243-261-315
Alternetive Email:(mr_david_morgan@37.com)

ACCOUNT PROVISION ON $45 M USD

Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you
as a surprise and may offend your personality for
contacting you without your prior consent and writing
through this unofficial channel.I got your contact
from a proffesional database found in internet while
searching for a reliable and honest person that will
assist me safeguard funds into an account.Due to the
amount involved since this deal is my last hope,I have
to consult my spiritual Leader who directed me to
contact you after series of prayers/fasting before
this letter to you.

Proposal : In the course of discharging my duty while
reconciling our debt on Ecowas contractors files who
has not received their balance payments on the
contracts executed by them.After going through some
old files ,I found out that one of our Foreign
Contractor who died some years ago by Motor Accident
was among the contractor's whose funds are to be paid.
I made several attempts to locate his other family
members or relations which proves abortive as was not
contained in his contract information with us.I
thought wisely to transfer this money out now Ecowas
is prepared to pay all contractor's outstanding bill
than loosing it to Ecowas since its ethics has a
stipulated years for such debt after which the debt
will be deleted from Ecowas record and will be termed
as Bad Debt which will be shared among Ecowas Top
management which i am not included.This is why i am
contacting you to assist me safeguard this Fund in
your account.I would have executed this deal without
contacting you but due to our country civil service
code which prohibits us from operating foreign
accounts and also the fund will only be released to a
foreigner as the next of kin to the Deceased Foreign
contractor.

As an account owner for this transfer,You will be
entittled to 15% of the total fund,15% will be used to
set up humanitarian organisations to be managed by
both of us in your country to help needy,motherless
babies and other less priviledged people While I take
65% for my investment in your country then 5% will be
set aside to take care of any incidental charges which
might arise in the course of the transfer.
Due to my position.I have all his personal
contract information which will be released to you on
demand to pursue the payment approval from Ecowas.All
the arrangement to put claim on the fund legally as
the apparent heir of the deceased has been
perfected.Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at
this juncture is enormous. In return I demand your
complete honesty and trust.
NOTE : This transaction will be strictly based on the
following terms and conditions as I have stated
below:

(a)My conviction of your transparent honesty and
diligence.

(b) That you would treat this transaction with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality

(c) That you will not ask for more share or try to sit
on the funds once it is under your custody, or any
form of blackmail to allow you run away with this
fund.

(d) That upon receipt of the funds you will release
the funds as instructed by me after you have removed
your share of 15% from the total amount before my
arrival in your country as it might take me time to
retire and get my travel documents ready before
arriving.

This transaction is 100% legal and risk free
and we hope to conclude this deal within 14 working
days if you accord me your unalloyed support and
co-operation. I give you my word that you are
completely safe in doing business with me.
Transactions like this have been successfully carried
out in the past by some of my collegues and now they
are outside enjoying their wealth with their foreign
collaborators.

Looting and corruption is rampant in this part of the
world ,thus explaining why you might have heard
stories of how money is been taken out of this country
through foreigners assistance like you, this is
because everyone is making desperate attempts to
secure his/her family future, so that when retires
from active service he/she will not languish in
poverty since Civil servants were not properly taken
care of.

NB:To Strenghten the security network of this deal and
for you to be very sure you are rightly speaking with
me,it is very important that when you call and ask for
me,the moment i pick up the phone,you should ask me
for the "SECRET NUMBER" and my answer would be "ONE"
before we proceed discussions,But if i do not say
"ONE",that means you are not speaking with me just
disconnect the call and call back till i give you the
"NUMBER".

If this deal further interest you,call me for more
detailed information and discard this information if
you won't participate due the sensitivity of the
transaction.As am an employee of Ecowas and always
busy in the office especially now that other
contractors will be coming for their funds too,Ask me
if i am free to talk whenever you call me.Due to poor
Telephone System in my country,Your call might be
either giving you a busy signal or computer saying
that the Telephone subscriber is not Available,Kindly
ignore it and continue trying as you must definately
be connected.

God Bless
Mr.David Morgan

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