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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: JACOB GARANG <jc_garang@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 09:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR HONEST AND TRUE ATTENTION


Dear sir
With grief and ever fresh alive memory of my great lovely father Dr John Garang the first vice president of federal republic of SUDAN and former rebel leader of southern SUDAN movement of SPLA who died with other fourteen of his members on Saturday July night in helicopter clash when returning from meeting with president of UGANDA.

After his death as an elder son of my father and with permission of my mother who handed me all the necessary documents and informations regarding this funds that was deposited with a security company in Accra Ghana west Africa, where I am now soliciting for your humble and honest assistance in getting out this amount of US$( US$45.550.000.00) forty five Million Five hundred and fifty Thousand United States Dollars from the this company as my father's foreign partner/the beneficiary of this 2trunk boxes containing this amount as a gift to you,

As you are reading this letter, for my safety and that of my family I wish to remind you that nobody knows my where about except you and my family so I demand that this transaction has to do with confidentiality,to refresh your memory on how it happen and why i need your help is that this fund was lodged here by my father as personal items related to his foreign partner which no name was giving to them as the beneficiary/my father's foreign partner,therefore i want you to stand as the beneficiary/my father's foreign partner to the security company,as i will give you every informations and documents that will help you to claim this 2trunks from the security company,including me and my mother standing behind you as the beneficiary, as iam the next of kin,i have no legal right to claim it unless the depositor or my father's foreign partner will be allowed to claim it, according to their agreement with my father that the two trunks is a gift items and personal effect ,contents
is unknown,

I came to Ghana with my mother and we located the company and the company recognized us as the family of the depositor and the next of kin,it was then they requested that we should contact the beneficiary,that is my father's foreign partner,that he is the only person that has the right of claim,as the depositor is dead,this is to tell you that anybody we recommend to them will be accepted since we will provide you with the whole documents and informations concerning the deposit,therefore What really matters in this relationship is the entire approach believing this to be a welcome development. I must stress that I contacted you on trust, understanding, and oneness for the realization of this project. Base on this prejudice, I need your utmost co-operation, support and truthfulness in this relationship.and i want you to know that the contents is unknown,but only you and my family knows that the content is money,

This is because, the business I am about to establish with you must definitely take us affluence and be considered as the biggest welcome development of the year. You must understand that this is monetary matter and I have seen and heard how people have been turn apart in the past due to selfish desire. Let us allow God to lead us in this operation! So that we can show example in the society. For more information's of my father reign, his great achieve, his life, death and of my family affair,visit this site (
<<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=allbbc&go=homepage&q=john+Garang+of+sudan&x=29&y=10>
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Accepting to help me out in this project I wish to inform you that after the successful claim of this trunks a handsome rewards awaits you upon concluding of this transaction and I also assure you of 100% risk free of this project, therefore as you show your interest to assist me in this project i will give you the storage company's contact,for you to declare your interest to claim your item kept in their care,for the complete confidentiality of this transaction you can also reply me on this secured e mail address- garang_jcjr@hotmail.com, looking forward to hear from you soon thanks,regards
MR JACOB GARANG.
for the family.



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