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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 Fornah" <johnkfornah7@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:51:07 +0000
Subject: Please Consider Our Condition And Help!!!

A CRY FOR URGENT AID!!!
John Kumara Fornah.
Go moa Refugees Camp.
Accra Ghana.
West Africa.

Dear Anneke Steinko,

How are you today, hope all is fine?
We hope that this email will find you in good health but appologising
for contacting you through this medium please pardon us.
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 Iam 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 President Tejan Kabbah economic
advisers. My late fathers because of his position acquire lots of properties
through diligent, God fearing and hardwork.
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 evn
breaking the national vaults. My late father to safeguard the fund Hurried
went to Accra Ghana and Deposit the Fund $32 Million United States Dollars
In a Security company. My Late father whom was an asthmatics 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-011023-02.stm
My late fathers corpse was Buried in our country home in Mende Western
Freetown Sierra Leone, After The Burial of my late fathers the rebels West
side boys held Our Entire family hostage until the Government secured our
realized, 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
fathers 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,
secret and confidential, as nobody else knows about this fund except My
Sister, My mother, you and I now. Even the Security did not
know the content of the trunk metallic box because the content were
declared/documented as artwork from the national museum.

We awaits your urgent response.
Best Regards,
John Kumara Fornah.
Tel: 233-24-365-4410.

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