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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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 by the Scam-O-Matic 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:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• 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.
  • strictlybiz.garangjr@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "John Gar" <garajohn877@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: strictlybiz.garangjr@yahoo.es
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:59:45 +0000
Subject: Kind Request.

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information in this message may be proprietary
and/or Confidential, and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this
message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible
for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this
communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this
communication in error, please delete the message from your computer. Thank
you.
............................................................................................………………………………….

Dear,

HAPPY NEW YEAR! My name is John Garang Jr, from the Republic of Sudan. I am
writing you with trust and Confidentiality. And I got your contact through
the Internet. It is my humble Decision to solicit for your understanding and
cooperation in this business that will benefit you and I.

At the mid term of the rebellion which is still on till date, my father (Dr.
John Garang DeMabior), thinking fast, decided to send my brother and I out
of the country (Sudan), with a total sum of (US$35M), Thirty five million
United States Dollars only. This money was meant for the purchase of arms
and ammunitions for the rebel, but my father had to divert the funds as a
way of frustrating the on-going war that has claimed the lives of millions
of Sudanese. The bills were carefully moved as diplomatic baggage Madrid,
Spain. Please log on to these web sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/820864.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garang

On our arrival in Madrid, Spain, we discovered that as political asylum
seekers, we are not allowed to operate bank account (s). With the
instruction of my father, we deposited the baggage in a security company.
This was without declaring the contents to them. In late July 2005, my
father died after the Ugandan presidential Mi-172 helicopter he was riding
crashed

We therefore need your assistance by coming to Madrid to open a non-resident
bank account with any of the banks. The non-resident account will enable the
onward telegraphic transfer of the funds to your nominated bank account. The
whole arrangement will be strictly under our supervision and the transaction
will be absolutely risked free. The transfer to your account would be
completed the same day.

We intend to share the money upon successful completion of the transaction
as follows:- 26% will be entitled to you for your assistance, while 70% will
be for us and 4% will be set aside to take care of expenses. Should this
meet your utmost consideration, kindly write back immediately to confirm
your earliest date of arrival?

The confidentiality of this transaction cannot be over emphasized as we
trust and believe that you will oblige us the security and attention it
demands. Please reply through my confidential email:
strictlybiz.garangjr@yahoo.es


Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

John Garang Jr.

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