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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: kelvin garang <k_garang@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <kelvingarang1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:07:28 +0200
Subject: From Kelvin Garang.



From Kelvin Garang.

Dearest One,

I am Kelvin Garang the only son of late General John Garang.

My father was the former rebel leader of sudan who letter became the vice president of Sudan before he was killed by a planned deal as plane crash which took place on Monday, 1 August 2005 in mountains located in southern Sudan.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4735725.stm He was buried on Saturday, 6 August 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4126370.stm .

After the death of my mother, the president of Sudan placed embargo on my late father's assets during his speech on the 2nd January 2006 which made me to leave the country through road to another coutry where the government granted me refuge under political asylum camp.

As the only son of my father,During the time of his rebel wars, He Secretly called me on a faithful day and told me that he has the sum of $7,400.000.00 (Seven Million four hundred thousand United States dollars) deposited in company of safety in africa that he used my name as his first son for the next of kin in deposit of the fund. He also explained to me that I should seek for a God fearing foreigner in any country of my choice except Sudan where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purposes.

Please i am honorably seeking your assistance to be the beneficiary of the money because i went to the company of safety to take money for my up keeping and i was told by the company of safety that i don't even have right to claim the money without my late father's foreign beneficiary.

It is based on this issue that i have contacted you to be the beneficiary of this money. If it pleases you, Kindly send me your full information, so that i will submit it to the company of safety and introduce you as my late Father's foreign beneficiary.

I will like you to be honest and sincere with me, i will like you to help me to invest this money in any business that you know too well after the successful transfer of this money to your country i will be coming to your country for us to plan for the investment project.

Thanks and God Bless.
Best regards.
Kelvin J.Garang.
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