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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: "johnkumarafornah" <johnkumarafornah@canada.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:36:09 -0800
Subject: From John Kumara Fornah!!!


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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