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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.

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Some comments about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • jos_garang@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?jocob=20garang?= <jos_garang@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:05:52 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I wish to bestow this mutual trust on you


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: jos_garang@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Beloved,


I wish to bestow this mutual trust on you, which I believe you will not

ignore or betray. I also apologize in advance for any inconvenience

this letter may cause you



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 still alive today also who handed me all the necessary documents

regarding this transaction which I am about to detail you more, as it

concern you to know I was mandatory by my mother and my younger ones to

leave Sudan to Accra Ghana west Africa where I am now writing you to

solicit your assistance in getting out this amount of US$(

US$50.550.000.00) fifty Million Five hundred and fifty Thousand United

States Dollars which my father secretly lodge with financial house here

in Accra.



As you are reading this letter, for my care and of that my family I

wish to remind you that nobody knows my where about except you and my

family so I demand that this transaction have to do with confidential

.to refresh you memory on how it happen this fund was lodge here by my

father as personal items related to his foreign partner which on name

was mention on space and this what I want you to act for me, to achieve

this goal I will like you to know that all the necessary documents both

an agreement bound of my father with finical house made is with me now

.I will made it available when it is needed by you as I solicit your

wiliness to stand as original benefactor and beneficial of the said

items as it was stated in this agreement and your wiliness to notify

also write to the financial house of your coming done for the release

of this said items to you, as you have to know this items contain in

four trunk boxes which nobody knows that is MONEY EXCEPT you and my

family. What really matters in this relationship is the entire approach

believing this to be 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.



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 SEE ( www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=allbbc&go=homepage

&q=john+Garang+of+sudan&x=29&y=10>

>)


Accepting to help me out in this project I wish to inform you of my

offer you 30% of this fund on conclude of this transaction I also

assure you of 100% risk free of this project, so dear friend get back

to me soon also you can e-mail me on:jogarang@Mind-N-Magick.zzn.com


Thanking you with regards.

Jocob Garang

For the family.



- jocob garang

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