African Scams: Doctor Mike $30 Contract Award

A large percentage of African scams appear to come from Ghana. In this scam email, the country of Ghana with its capital of Accra is located near Nigeria which is also a major source of email scam letters. Scammers frequently use made up names such as Dr. Mike and Philip Johnson as in this case.

The main topic of this scam letter seems to be a contract award of $30 Million dollars. Mr. Philip Johnson then tells the hoped for scam victim that they will receive $1.2 Million dollars in compensation for doing superficial things such as reading letters and answering or making phone calls. Dr. Mike is to be contacted in oreder for the scam victim to recieve the compensation fund.

CONTACT DR MIKE NGANGA NOW
Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:59 PM
From: "Mr.Philip Johnson"

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To: undisclosed-recipients

Dear Friend,

I am very happy to write this email to inform you that I have succeeded in receiving that fund which I solicited for your assistance as my partner to transfer the sum of $30 million USD Dollars for the contract Award in ACCRA GHANA.

The fund was successfully transferred on the 12th Feb2009,through a German Partner I am now in Holland for business. I will not come back till 10th of JUNE 2010.But I have searched my conscience and so I decided to compensate you for your earlier cooperation and participation.

So I have placed the sum of $1,2million USD for you as compensation for your time/mails, Phonecalls,Financial Commitments efforts and Your cooperations etc. I have left instruction with my personal secretary Dr.Mike Nganga so Pls contact him through his;E-mails address(mike_nganga@live.com)
Please email him and inform him that I have contacted you and that he should go ahead to send your compensation fund. Also send him the information below so that he will confirm that you are the person supposed to contact him, considering the kind of information he is expecting so fill free to get in touch with Dr.Mike Nganga he will send you the money without any delay.

Your Name :............
Your Address :........
Your Phone/Fax Number:.........
Your Country:..........

God Bless You and your family

Regards,
Mr.Philip Johnson

Many times, the African scam will include a small form for the scam victim to fill out. While the usual information is asked for, such as name, address and telephone number as in this case, sometimes financial information is reequested such as bank name or bank account numbers. Another way to recognize scams from Africa is to notice the examples of bad spelling and grammar that are frequently found in many African scam letters. The scammers, however, are developing better communication skills. In this sample scam letter, the errors are very few but still noticable.