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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: "Miss Kate J.Garang." <k_gjohn@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: k_gjohn3@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:10:51 +0000
Subject: Be My Helper.

Dear Sir, Madam.
I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and fragile political situation in my country Sudan but it has formed consistent headlines in the CNN, BBC news bulletins I am Miss Kate from the Republic of Sudan i am the Daughter of Late Mr.John Garang.
My late father before his death he was Vice the President of Sudan.
My Father was kill by Sudan President Omar al Bashir in helicopter crash.
The main reason why I am contacting you now, is to seek you assistance in the area of my future investment and also for a help hand over some amount of money my Late father deposited for me as beneficiary.
This money is, ($ 6.8m) Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand United state Dollars my late father deposited it for me in a bank in Europe some years ago,I am in Dakar Senegal now.
I came here after the death of my parents, i came to this country to search for a foreign partner to help me retrieve the money from the Bank and also help me relocate to your country and invest in real estate and industrial productions.
I have contacted them some many times what they told me was due to my refugee status they will not release it to me, that i should present somebody or a company to stand on my behalf.
I am now asking you to pls help me stand on my behalf to make this claim,to stand as my partner oversea and in time of the investment as well Please if you are willing to assist me,indicate your interest in replying soonest.
so if your intrested i will send all the informations of the bank and that of the attony to you.
You can read about the death of my late father in this newspaper
report : <http://au.news.yahoo.com/050801/21/vbbl.html>
waiting for you.
Miss Kate J.Garang.




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