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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: Prince Williams <prince@jptaka.com>
Reply-To: wp21542@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 02:56:43 -0800
Subject: GREETINGS, FROM PRINCE W"REPLY BACK



--
Greetings ,

I work with a rural development organization; our agency is an am 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 country’s healthcare system, the development and
implementation of policies relating to health economics and providing
analytics for sound economic controls for the country’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
Prince Williams

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