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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: "John Kumara Fornah" <johnkfornah72@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:14:19 +0000
Subject: Personal Message To You!!!

John Kumara Fornah.
Go moa Refugees Camp.
Accra Ghana.
West Africa.

Hello Dear,

How are you today? I hope that all is well with you, Please try to respond
urgently to this mail proposal. First of all by Introduction My name is John
Kumara Jim Fornah Jnr born 1980,From the Diamond Rich town of Mende western
Freetown Sierra Leone west Africa I am the son of late Dr Jim Fornah, my
late father held a lot of respected and envious position in the government
of President Tejan Kabbah before his untimely death after a brief illness,
He my Late father was the former bank governor of my country Sierra Leone,
he was also the finance and Economic advicer to President Tejan Kabbah . My
late father because of his position acquired lots of properties through
diligence, God fearing and handwork.

Before the outbreak of the eight years Brutal civil war in my Country Sierra
Leone, My late father sold our family land which was rich in diamond
deposits to an American Mining company ,Because of the rebels brutality in
my country, As the rebels were looting banks, finance houses and even
breaking the national vaults. My late father to safeguard the fund Hurried
went to Accra Ghana and Deposit the Fund worth $32 Million United States
Dollars In a Security company. My Late father whom was an asthmatic patient,
died of cancer of the heart in 2001, in the United States of America on a
Government Sponsored medical treatment .You can go to this link to confirm
this information’s

www.cmetfreetown.org/Media/Print/Articles/CSS_Articles/NewVision/NV-01102302.stm

My late father`s corpse was Buried in our country home in Mende Western
Freetown Sierra Leone, After The Burial of my late father the rebels West
side boys held Our Entire family hostage until the Government secured our
release, Due to the break down of law and order, as the rebels were killing
everybody recklessly, we left Freetown sierra Leone to Accra Ghana, We
arrived Ghana through a boat with other Refugees, We are presently in Go moa
Refugee camp Accra Ghana as refugees.

My Mother tried to locate the company to confirm this deposit and thank God
She found the company, we then presented the documents to the director and
told him that we wants to claim the deposited metallic Trunk Box in their
custody.

The Director of the security company confirmed that they do have such
Deposits with them based on the documents we presented to them, He went on
to say Madam as you can see even from the agreement we can not release the
Mettallic trunk box to you without the concept of your husbands foreign
partner, this is why we contacted you so as to stand for us as my late
father`s foreign partner and also our proxy man to get this metallic box out
of the Security company and transfer the fund to your country for any good
investment which you will recommend to us,

We have resolved to give you 20% of the Total fund $32 Million united states
Dollars as your compensation for helping us. What matters to us is trust,
secrecy and confidentiality, as nobody else knows about this fund except My
Sister, My mother, you and I now. Even the Security company did not know the
real content of the trunk metallic box because the content were
declared/documented as artwork from the national museum.

We are waiting for positive and urgent response from you regarding this our
request, And please try to contact us through this number below or email for
more details,and if you have any question to ask please dont hesitate to do
so ok. Thanks.

Our regards to your family.

Yours Truly,
John Kumara Fornah.
Tel: 00233-24-365-4410.

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