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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: =?utf-8?q?=22Eeccntg=22?= <eeccntg@eeccntg.onmicrosoft.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 20:39:45 +0000
Subject: =?utf-8?q?Please=2ci=20need=20your=20advise?=

Good Day,

Compliments of the day to you and this mail will meet you in good
health I hope you are doing well.With Due Respect, I want to introduce
myself. My name is Doctor Anthony Jones, Chairman of Contract Award
Committee of West African Health Support Organization (WAHSO). I
operate at our headquarters which are located in Accra, Ghana, but our
sub and area offices are in all member states of the organization.

This organization is an arm of the Economic Communities of West
African States (ECOWAS) which is the single largest organization
operating here in the West African sub-region with 15 member states.
In addition, my organization oversees health support related matters
in the whole region.

I am contacting you based on the committee's need for an
individual,company whom are willing to assist us with a solution to a
money transfer. The amount of $23.5 million (Twenty Three Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) represents the balance of the
total contract value executed on behalf of ECOWAS for supply of
hospital equipment from foreign contracting firms, which we
over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has been paid.

We need you to help us by providing a durable account that will be
used to receive this money for the benefit of all of us.We made up
this mark to take care of our retirement benefits because some of us
in the committee are due for retirement soon and we believe this will
help in no small measure to affect great change in our generations
coupled with the fact that the project was a multi-million dollar so
it provided a very unique and great opportunity for us all.

Would you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of
the sum will be 30% of the $23.5 Million, 65% for us and 5% for
taxation and miscellaneous expenses. To enable us to begin commencing,
you should provide the following for immediate kickoff of this deal if
it interests you: Your company's name with its complete address,
telephone number, and fax number.

We are mature men in the highest cadres of our careers and would want
to protect both our reputation which we have worked hard over the
years to build, our family names, careers and grown up children, so we
would want you to take this transaction serious and give it, it's
desired attention if you accepts this partnership.

Please confirm the receipt of this message and let us know your
position immediately.Contact me through my private email (
eeccngh@foxmail.com )for more details.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr Anthony Jones

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