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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: "Col. Jang Doo-hwan." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <con_nohdaejung@yahoo.co.kr>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:53:01 +0100
Subject: ""Greetings from me and my family""

Greetings from me and my family.

I ordered my son, since I am not computer literate, to seek a partner very far away and he went to an internet cafe and with the help his wife got your email address and two others, but we decided to follow them up carefully because of the level of the secrecy of the project. I intend to write one of the others if you do not responded on time or if you eventually change your mind.
My name is JANG DOO-HWAN, The brother of Mr. CHUN DOO-HWAN, the former President of South Korea who seized power in a military coup in 1979 and who ruled from 1979 to 1987. My brother was pushed out of office and charged with treason ,corruption and embezzlement state funds. He was wrongly sentenced to death but fortunately AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL stepped in and commuted the sentence to life. We thank God that he has finally being released though still under house arrest in the sense of conditions of the freedom. During my brother's regime as president of South Korea, we realized some reasonable amount of money from various projects that we successfully executed, thirty mlln. United States of American currency. This monies were gotten from the multi-national construction companies that my brother awarded major roads and bridges construction contract that ran into billions of Dollars, for which they voluntarily gave us cash gifts. My brother even got his country home constructed freely for him by one of the com
I am contacting you because I want you to deal with the company and claim the money on my behalf since I have declared that the money belongs to my foreign business partner. You shall also be required to assist me in using the money to set up lucrative projects in your country. I hope to trust you as a God fearing person who will not sit on this money when you claim it, rather assist me properly, I expect you to declare what percentage of the total money you will take for your assistance. When I receive your positive response I will let you know where the company is and the details of the location of the money and how you will gain possession. What we need is for you to indicate your interest that you will assist us by receiving the money on our behalf in Europe or with special arrangement, you can get it sent to you by bank . For this, you shall be considered to be the sole owner of the money.
The reason we cannot do this ourselves is because we do not have any relatives living outside South Korea worthy of trust and moreover we do not want the government of my country to know about the money as they will believe I got the money from my brother from the government's funds while he was still in office as president .Once you confirm the receipt of the money ,I will come over with my children to your country or any country in Europe to start a new life with my family. As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is successfully sent into your account, we intend to use our own share in acquiring some estates abroad. For this too you shall also be our overseas manager of all our properties and you will be paid based on a certain sharing agreed on by both parties. For now, let all our communication be by e-mail because my line is right now connected to the South Korean Telecommunication Network services therefore we can not take the chances of being heard.
Please also send me your telephone and fax number. I will ask my son to contact you to give you more details on after I have received a response from you and we decide to work with you. I am going to introduce you to my brother, the General as an age long friend so as to prevent him from using any of his own friends who I regard as sycophants who were around him for financial gains. This notion I got from the experience I had when the people turned against Chun, my brother that became the prelude of our sorrow. The reason why it took us this long was that the company's agreement with me was that my brother must personally sign the documents that will transfer title to the prospective nominated receiver, but his health is now declining so it will be risky to wait any longer. It was a long wait but it paid off because everybody believes that we are finished. His excellency, Chun Doo-Hwan does not want to be personally involved for security reason. Your quick response will be highly appreciated. Thank you in an

Yours faithfully,
Jang Doo-hwan.

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