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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: "DAVID MORGAN" <davidmorgan5g@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:44:47 +0000
Subject: Kindly Get Back To Me

Strictly
Confidential

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


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 time ago 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.you can contact me on
this E-mail davidmorgan3g@yahoo.co.in

God Bless
Mr.David Morgan

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