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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: "Martin Gambo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <martingambo@presi-dency.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 03:23:25 -0700
Subject: Revert to this message as soon as possible.

LT. Martin Gambo
205 Garki Road ,
Area 7, Abuja , Nigeria
Phone:+234-1-7637347



For your kind attention,


After the recent meeting Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) held in Abuja the capital of Nigeria, which the President of Nigeria Dr. GoodLuck E. Jonathan is the current chairman of ECOWAS, during discussing about unpaid foreign contracts/Inheritance owed by African regions, your case was mentioned, after the meeting, Mr. President who is the current chairman instructed me to verify why your $5.5Million US dollars have not been paid to you. During my verification I called the attention of Ghanaian Government to know why your payment have not been made upon several approvals. I came to understand that this fund your pushing as Inheritance came as result of over-invoicing from contracts awarded by some Officials of ECOWAS in Ghana.


The ECOWAS Official who initiate you to stand as the inheritor of this fund did not tell you the truth and there was no proper documentation on your favour before their offices was resolved, that is why you spent all the money without any fruitful result, you should n't have spent a lot of money to get this fund if there was a proper documentations on your name.


The reference of this contract with the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) signified that the Original contracts was awarded to an American Company, Total contracts valued: $452,750,000.00 and these contracts was executed successfully and the Contractor has been paid off. I have traced your name from the Archive and Statistics Department of ECOWAS in Ghana with the number contract number on the original contract and I discovered that your name is not existing with their documentation department and the documents in your file with the bank backing your claim are photocopies and you can’t believe that all the characters in these documents has been erased, because these documents were not original copies.


As a matter of fact, I must tell you the truth because that is the only solution to get you out from this problem. Even some attempts has been made severally by people to claim this fund on your behalf, but due to this fund is in your name as the beneficiary with the bank, they could not succeed. You have been having problem to receive this fund because the Economic Community Of West African States does not recognize you as their original contractor, rather you were introduced to receive this fund as your inheritance being over-invoicing inflected by the past committee, to get this done once and for all and to avoid this ugly occurrences, all the documentation must be process on your name afresh, and these documents and agreement will be sent to you via courier Company for you to study and endorse your signatory before the paying bank, African Development Bank the appointed Bank by Ecowas will release this fund to your designated account.


All these documents will be process as a sublet contract and there must be an agreement between you and the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) including Contract Award Certificate, Job Completion Certificate and Payment Approval Documents from different Economic Community offices, which the authorities in charge must endorse their signatories before dispatching the original copies for your final endorsement. Without this process, you will not receive this fund because Ecowas has lost huge amount to ghost contractors. Hence I have conducted my verification and find out that you never executed any contract nor this fund is inheritance from your relative, I will not be a stumbling block for you from receiving this fund because you have spent a lot of money in process of receiving this payment, it will be wickedness if I will cancel this payment without knowing your opinion.


I will direct you on how to get these documents with condition that you will compensate me with 5% after you have receive your fund. If you go through this message and you are satisfied with my report, I want you to reconfirm the following information below to enable me give you guidelines on the documentation.

Your name
Address
Company's name/Address
Telephone/ Fax numbers


LT. Martin Gambo
Chairman Debt Reconciliation
Office of the Presidency.

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