419 scam: Umair Hasan <121342george@gmail.com> ECOWAS CONTRACT

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Umair Hasan <121342george@gmail.com>
Reply-To: umairh552@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:28:04 +0000
Subject: ECOWAS CONTRACT

Greetings ,

I work with a rural development organization; our agency is an arm of the
Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS), for 15years I have
held the position of head/director of Health Financing and Insurance
department for 6years now. Our services and activities include Improving
the efficacy and efficiency of healthcare spending and investment, ensuring
coverage and access to high quality health care at affordable cost for the
entire population, the development of health planning policies within the
countryâ€™s healthcare system, the development and implementation of policies
relating to health economics and providing analytics for sound economic
controls for the countryâ€™s healthcare needs and many other key areas that I
cannot begin to list here.

We awarded contracts to various drug manufactures and large drug
distributing companies both in America and Asia in 2014 and during the
deliberations and the processing of the contracts, myself and a strategic
member of my committee convinced and inflated the value of the contract to
the sum of US$40.800.000.00. The contracts were completed between 2014 and
2016, our agency has paid all the contractors and suppliers in full but the
over invoice value of US$40.800.000.00 has been floating in the balance
sheet of the agency's account with ta financial security company and
recently the manager wrote and required me to forward account where the
remaining of the balance will be paid to. It is in this regard that I am
inviting you to come and partner with me by providing me an account so we
can move this fund out of Africa for our collective interest.

I am willing to relay further information as soon as you confirm your
interest.

Thanks
Umair

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