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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: PATRICE KODJO <patricekodjo@ecowas.int>
Reply-To: patricekodjo@blumail.org
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:51:15 +0900
Subject: ECOWAS

OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN
CONTRACT AWARDING &
PROCUREMENT COMMITTEE,
ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF
WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
HEADQUARTERS, LOME, REPUBLIC OF TOGO E-mail:patricekodjo@ecowas.int patricekodjo@blumail.org


TELEPHONE: +22899653992

Dear Friend,

I am DR PATRICE KODJO, the chairman, contract awarding and procurement committee of economic community of west African states with headquarters in Lome, Togo.

Please, pardon me if this massage comes to you as a surprise and if it might offend you because it is without your prior consent and writing through this channel.

I got your information from a business directory in Togolese chamber of commerce and industry while searching for a reliable person to entrust this business with. From the directory I got many contacts which I forwarded to my pastor to put in prayer and he sent yours to me as reliable.

I wish to solicit your business relationship and if you accept, I have the sum of US$10,429,000 ( Ten million, four hundred and twenty nine thousand United States Dollars I would like you to help my colleagues and I receive in bank account for our mutual benefits.

This fund was a residue of the over invoiced contract bills awarded by us for the supply of ammunitions, hard/ soft wares, pharmaceutical and medical items, light and heavy duty vehicles, apparels and other administrative logistics etc for ECOMOG in sierra-Leone and Liberia during the peace keeping projects this deal was deliberately hatched out and carefully protected with all attendant loop holes sealed off. As the chairman of (CAC), l have the cooperation and mandate of the financial director of the organisation. 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 born out of our belief in the non- stable and spurious political nature of this sub-region.

The original contractors have been duly paid by banque centrale des etats de l, afrique del ouest (central bank of the west African states) through our banker -ECO-BANK. This balance is suspended in the escrow accounts awaiting claims by any foreign company of our choice. We intend to pay out
this fund now as the organisation is winding up its activities since the aim of returning peace to the countries and the coast has been achieved. Based on the law and ethics of employments, we as civil servants working under this organisation, are not allowed to operate a foreign account. This is the reason why we need your assistance to provide an account that can sustain this fund for our future investments. With your advice, assistance and partnership, I will personally invest in your country.

It is however agreed that as the account owner in this deal, you are entitled to
20% of the total sum as compensation, 75% to 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 within 14 days if you accord us your unalloyed and due co-operation. For more information on Ecowas you can view Ecowas page on ecowas.int Please keep this transaction very confidential until it is completed I have disabled every message to my personal Ecowas mail for my security please contact me on this email: patricekodjo@blumail.org or call me on: +22899653992.

I look forward to your early reply,

Yours sincerely,


DR PATRICE KODJO

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