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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "JOHN AMAKA" <johnamaka3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jhn_amaka@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:48:26 -0700
Subject: Dr. John Amaka

Dr. John Amaka
Federal Ministry of Health
Hospital management Board
P.O.Box 35467. Garki, Abuja.

Season greetings to you and your entire family!

I am Dr. John Amaka coordinator for the building and maintenance of all
Public Hospitals in all the states of the federation. I know that this mail
will come to you as a surprise because we have never met before now. However
i choose to reach you via e-mail message because it remains the fastest and
more secured way for communication.

The federal ministry of health and the hospital management board awarded for
the building and maintenance of all public hospitals in the federation to a
foreign firm in the year 2004. This contract has been fully executed and
commissioned full payments have been made to the contractors who executed
this contract.

We were able to over invoice this contract amount to $10.5million. This
$10.5m is what we want to transfer abroad with your co-operation and
understanding and your share will be ONLY us$3.5million while us$7million
will be shared by we the committee members. All modalities towards the
transfer of these fund $10.5m is now in place, we await any account of your
choice where you want it remitted.

If you find this proposal interesting to you, you can go ahead and reply me
as a matter of urgency with a contact phone number and give me time to reach
you on phone because of our time differences. Please keep this matter very
confidential to yourself.

Cheers and God bless.

Yours truly.

Dr. John Amaka

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