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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!

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From: Junior Garang <junior_garang4@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:59:41 +0100 (BST)
Subject: LOOKING FORWARD FOR YOUR URGENT RESPOND,JUNIOR JOHNGARANG


Dear Sir,Madam
How are you and your family hope fine? I greet you in the name of the most High God. I am JUNIOR JOHNGARANG, the son of the late Sudanese Vice President who died in a plane crash July 31st 2005, and was buried in August 5th 2005. I here by with this medium inform you that my father was killed in a plane crash by the Sudanese government,

which the whole world is aware of accusing my father that he is a rebel leader when he is not. In fact what the Sudanese government was after is for my father to allow them to exploits Our Gold and our Mineral Resources with out developing the country and they want to make use of the money for their own personal expenses.

And due to the position of my father as a military man who is in a good position in the country and the people of Dafur and the Sudanese believe him so much that he can not betray them, instead he will bring development to his people and cooperation between them and international community, which the present government was against that lead to my father’s death.

Although before the death of my father there was a reasonable amount of money that was give to him by the world leaders association (WLA) to re- structuring the Sudan security firm (SSF) from the military to the police and to the lowest community chiefs which the present government disagreed with the issue, instead they are requesting for the cash to go into the government pocket and directly it will go into their own personal pocket, so that they can buy more ammunitions and plot coup, and sponsor rebels.

Although, I JUNIOR JOHNGARANG, am presently in Ghana for safety purpose now and intend living as soon as possible for the betterment of my people, because before the death of my father who is the late Sudanese Vice President he disclosed a secret to me as his son that money that was handed over to him for the development of the country was deposited in a security company vault house, declared as family precious items. That was willed to me as the next of kin, and stated that the money should be invested with foreign investor,

which I Mr JUNIOR JOHNGARANG will hereby follow my father’s instruction to invest the money wisely with foreign investor.

I need a Technical adviser which percentage will be map out for any support of getting this money across Africa to the final destination and all the necessary document are with me here in exile because the government want me to release the treasure to them.

This is why I ran from my country (SUDAN) to Ghana. waiting for your reply God Bless you
Your regard
JUNIOR JOHNGARANG .For more information please kindly reach me through my private Phone Number is +233-248-520728.

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