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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: "DR. Mohammed Gibril Sule," <sulemohammed82@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: drmohammedsule@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:17:58 +0000
Subject: lease!

Attn: Sir,

I am DR. Mohammed Gibril Sule, Chairman, Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Contract
Awarding Committee of with its fund Headquarters in
Accra-Ghana. I got your information in a Professional
database when I was searching through Internet for a
reliable,honest and trustworthy person to entrust this
business with.I was simply inspired and motivated to
pick your contact from the many names in the list of
the directory. After discussing my view and your
profile with my colleagues,they were very much
satisfied and decided to contact you immediately for
this mutual business relationship.We wish to transfer
the sum of (USD$19,500,000.00) into your personal or
company`s bank account.This fund was a residue of the
over invoiced contract bills awarded by us
intentionally for the supply of hard and software,
pharmaceuticals/medical items,light and heavy duty
vehicles,apparels and other administrative/logistics
for the ECOMOG ! in Sierra-Leone and Liberia during
the peacekeeping Projects.

This DEAL was deliberately hatched out and carefully
protected with the cooperation and mandate of the
Financial Director and the Secretary of the
Organization. We arranged and over invoiced the
contract funds supplied by different companies from
different countries during the crisis. It was our
consensus to seek the assistance of a willing
foreigner to provide us with the facilities to
transfer this money out of West Africa.This is borne
out of our belief in the non-stable and porous
political nature of this sub-region. The original
contractors have been duly paid by Ecowas banker
through the Central bank of Ghana and finance
Ministry.The balance is suspended in the ECOWAS
grand Account awaiting claims by any foreign partner
of our choice to receive the fund on our behalf Now
Ecowas is intending to pay all their outstanding
balance of their contractors this year as the
organization is winding up its activities since the
aim of returning PEACE to the countries and the coast
has been achieved.

Based on the laws and ethics of employment,we as
civil servants working under this organization, are
not allowed to operate/own a foreign account.This is
more reason why we needed your urgent assistance to
provide an account that can sustain this fund for
safe keeping and our future investment with your
comprehensive advise,assistance and partnership in
your country.It is however agreed,as the account
owner in this deal to allow you 30% of the entire sum
as compensation, 65% will be held on trust for us
while 5% will be used to defray any incidental charges
and cost during the course of the transaction. This
transaction will be successfully concluded within14
days if you accord us your unalloyed and due
cooperation.You should provide the followings for
immediate kick off of this deal if it interest you.

Upon the receipt of this informations,application for
claim will be sent to you to fill and return back to
the organization in pursuit of the claim legally and
then be forwarded to the organization for ratification
and subsequent payment.As with the case of all
organized (sensitive) and conspired DEALS,we solicit
for your unreserved confidentiality and utmost secret
in this business. We hope to retire peacefully and
lead honorable business life afterwards.There are no
risks involved .Kindly expedite action if you are
interested as we are behind schedule to enable us
utilize this golden opportunity pay out this fund
immediately which we might stand to loose, if we fail
to provide a safe account for this transfer on time at
the expiration of this year Ecowas has mapped out for
payment of all their outstanding contractors and the
dissolution of our committee.Please urgency is needed
as we do not know the time our organization will start
the payment hence it is necessary to start on time to
forestall any hitch while transferring the fund into
your designated account.

Hoping to hear from you.

With regards.

Dr.Mohammed Gibril Sule.
Headquarter P.M.B 5028
Accra-Republic of Ghana
Email: drmohammedsule@yahoo.fr
Website: www.ecowas.




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