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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: Dr Goldman Flanders <ngkeewei39@gmail.com>
Reply-To: eeccnga1@aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:39:27 +0100
Subject: Please kindly advise this mail

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 Mr Goldman Flanders, 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 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

Yours Faithfully,
Mr Goldman Flanders

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