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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" <johnkfornah80@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:08:45 +0000
Subject: From John Kumara Fornah/Urgent Please.

Hello Dear,

I got your contact and i decided to contact you for a business relatiosnhip
that will be of great benefit to you and us. My name is John Kumara Jim
Fornah Jnr born 1980,From the Diamond Rich town of Mende western Freetown
Sierra Leone west Africa I am 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.

My Late father was the former bank governor of my country Sierra Leone, he
was also the finance and Economic advicer to President Tejan Kabbah . My
late father because of his position acquired lots of properties through
diligence, God fearing and handwork.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 even breaking the national vaults.
My late father to safeguard the fund Hurried went to Accra Ghana and
Deposited the Fund worth $32 Million United States Dollars In a Security
company. My Late father whom was an asthmatic patient, died of cancer of the
heart in 2001, in the United States of America on a Government Sponsored
medical treatment .

After The Burial of my late father the rebels West side boys held Our Entire
family hostage until the Government secured our release, 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 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
father`s foreign partner to get this metallic box out of the Security
company and transfer the funds 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, secrecy and confidentiality.

Even the Security company did not know the real content of the trunk
metallic box because the content were declared/documented as artwork from
the national museum.
We sincerely await your mail soon. Thanks

Yours Truly,
John Kumara Fornah

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