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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: Lawrence Agbola <agbola@dadacasa.com>
Date: 20 Oct 2006 01:47:22 -0000
Subject: NICE TO ME MEET YOU!


Dr. Agbola Lawrence

Federal Ministry of Health

Hospital management Board

P.O.Box 35467. Garki, Abuja.



Greetings to you and your entire family!



We apologies for any in convince this mail might cause you, especially from a stranger you have not met before now. I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise.



However, i choose to reach you via e-mail message because it remains the fastest and more secured way for communicating particularly this mail that requires confidentiality on your side. I am Dr. Agbola Lawrence Coordinator for the Maintenance of all Public Hospitals in all the 36 states of the federal Republic of Nigeria.



The federal ministry of health and the hospital management board awarded for the building and maintenance of all public hospitals in the federation to a foreign firm in the year 2004. This contract was supervised via my committee, which i was the chairman of the committee.



We were able to over invoice this contract amount to $10.5m (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand united states of American dollars. Being a civil servant, we cannot keep such amount of money in our personal bank account and we cannot also operate any foreign bank account in our names. This has been a hindrance on our side and so we decide to contact you as a foreign partner to work with us for mutual benefits.



This $10.5m, will be shared as follows. $3.5m ONLY will be your share if you will provide us with any account to keep the fund. The balance $7million will be shared among we the committee members. Note that this contract has been fully executed and commissioned and full payments have been made to the contractors who executed this contracts leaving behind $10.5m in a suspense account for our use. All modalities towards the transfer of these fund $10.5m is now in place, we await any account of your choice anywhere you want it lodged.



We assure you of 100% risk free transaction to transfer this fund without any problem that will involve you since we are going to secure all legal transfer documents in your name and the account you will nominate.



If you find this proposal interesting to you, you can go ahead and reply me as a matter of urgency. Please keep this matter very confidential to yourself.



Cheers and God bless.



Yours truly.



Dr. Agbola Lawrence













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