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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: "FROM ELIZABETH GARANG" <elig3@tiscali.it>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:03:00 +0700
Subject: GOD BLESS YOU

Dear Friend,

I am Mrs Elizabeth Garang, the wife of the Sudan's vice President John
Garag who was killed in an
helicopter crash on August 1, 2005 .I am currently in Kenya, where I am
taken
refugee with my son Philip Garang.

We ran from Sudan because the incumbent government of Sudan want my son and
i killed because my
husband was striving hard For the liberation of southern Sudan. I want to
confide in you if you can
assist me to receive a trunk box of treasure box containing $25,000,000,USD
which my late husband
deposited with a diplomatic courier service for onward delivery to purchase
arms for the liberation
army.

The diplomat is will deliver the trunk boxes in your country in a few days
and i want you to front as my
beneficiary to claim this trunk box before i arrive to your country, and
this deposit was made under my
son's name as the next of kin. This consignment was deposited under class
U.P.C
meaning undisputed private consignment that is to say the diplomatic
courier service is ignorant of the
true contents of the consignment because, the contents was declared as an
African arts.


Upon request I will scan and send to you the certificate of deposit for
your perusal before the transaction
commences. Considering the effort you will put in the transaction, we are
willing to concede 25% of
the money to you as compensation, while remaining 75% will be for i and my
son Philip.

If you are ready you assist me ,please send me your phone number and your
resident address so that i
can forward it to the diplomat as my son's beneficiary as my i will
instruct the officer in charge to
deliver the consignment to you in your place on my behalf if only you are
not going to betray us
at the end.

You can visit this website to know more about my later husband.


http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=11050
http://www.sudantribune.com/article_impr.php3?id_article=11050
http://politics.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/080105sudangarangvp&curPhoto=
1
http://nazret.com/blogs/blogs/index.php?title=john_garang&more=1&c=1&tb=1&p
b=1
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/20/448696

Please write me back through my private email address. below.

elizabethg637@netscape.net

I await to hear from you soon.

Thanks.

Mrs. Elizabeth Garang.



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