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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: "momoh67" <momoh67@canada.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:07:55 -0800
Subject: Federal Ministry of Health

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

Greetings to you and your entire family!

We apologise for inconvinces this mail might caused you,
especially from a stranger you have not meet before now. 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. I am Dr. Omoh Momoh
Coordinator for the Maintenance of all Public Hospitals in
all the 36 states of the federal republic of Nigeria.

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 was supervised via my committee which I
was the chairman of the committee. We were able to over
invoice this contract amount to $10.5m (Ten Million Five
Hundred Thousand united states of American dollars.

Being a civil servant, we cannot keep such amount of money
in our personal bank account because of our currency
restrictions guiding all Government workers called the civil
servants and we cannot also operate any foreign bank
account. This has been a hindrance on our side and so we
decide to get a foreign partner to work with us for
mutual benefits.

This $10.5m, will be shared as follows. $3.5m ONLY will be
your share while the balance $7million will be shared among
we the committee members. Note that this contract has been
fully executed and commissioned and full payments have been
made to the contractor who executed this contracts leaving
behind $10.5m for our use. All modalities towards the
transfer of these fund $10.5m is now in place, we await any
account of your choice anywhere you want it lodged.

We assure you of 100% risk free transaction as we will use
our positions in Government to transfer this fund without
any problem that will involve or put you into any problem
since we are going to secure all legal transfer documents in
your name and the account you will nominate.

If you find this proposal interesting to you, you can go
ahead and reply me as a matter of urgency. Please keep this
matter very confidential to yourself.

Cheers and God bless.

Yours truly.

Dr. Omoh Momoh




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