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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: "Mr.Peter Mirac Akoon." <akoon.mirac@yandex.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:02:43 +0100
Subject: Investment Proposal!!!



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Good day, Sir/madam

I am Mr Peter Marac Akoon ,Desperate in search of a genuine person whom
I with my sister can trust for joint investment with gold mining
management,I am seeking for your assistance in helping us secure our
funds with gold mining field which is our inherited investment from my
late father.

My father is late Brigadier General Marac Akoon of Northern Bahr el
Ghazal, South Sudanese.

He was assassinated 30km away from Juba, in Bongu Country along
Juba-Yei Road in Central Equatorial state on 13th January 2014.

He was ambushed while working for the country he loved.

I am contacting you because my late father deposited the sum of US$55M
with a security group in Overseas and established a gold mining field in
Ghana.
I need your help to claim this fund into profitable investment in your
Country, manage the gold mining field,I will certainly compensate you
with not less than 20% of the valued sum.

I am 25 years while my sister is 17 years,But my brother with a sister
had been killed in cold bloody war,We are presently in Republic of Chad
traveling to Ghana through road.

Kindly contact me on mail: mirac.akoon@yandex.com

You can read more about my late father through this links below:
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49554
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-355514351.html

I'm highly anticipating your reply,

Yours
Sincerely,
Peter Mirac Akoon.

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