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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: "Chol Garang" <astokes1@fjallonatur.se>
Reply-To: chol.garang.sudan@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:08:38 +0200
Subject: IN GOOD FAITH...

Good Day,


With warm heart I offer my friendship and greetings hoping that this email
will meet you in good times. I know this email might be strange or
surprising to you because we have not met personally or had any contact in
the past but I humbly ask you to take due consideration of it's importance
and the benefit it will bring to you and my family. I am writing you to
solicit your co-operation in a multi million dollars investment.

My name is George Chol Garang , the eldest son of Late Dr. John Garang ,I
am presently seeking political asylum here in Accra-Ghana for fear of my
live .My late father John Garang was the leader of the Sudan People's
Liberation Army that fought the Khartoum government of Sudan for 21 years
until 09 July 2005 when he was made the first vice president of Sudan
after the Kenyan peace accord.

Three weeks after(30 July 2005)he was killed when he was returning from
Uganda on the Ugandan presidential helicopter who is an ally to the
Sudanese president Oman el Bashir during the civil war against the people
of south Sudan. My late father was set up to believe all is well, My
mother received a top secret information to find a way to smuggle me out
of the country because the Khartoum Government is planning to kill me and
my family.

Oil was discovered in southern Sudan in 1978, which erupted the civil war
in 1983 involving the government forces and the Sudanese People's
Liberation Movement under the leadership of my late father. During the
war, the oil wells were whole control by Sudanese People's Liberation Army
under the leadership of my late father.

I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance
to secure my father's fund deposited in Europe, my Late father's deposited
Twenty-seven Million United States Dollars cash ($27,000.000.00) now in
the custody the vault of a Private Finance firm in Europe. Before my
father's death, he told me about the deposit of the funds and he told me
in case he dies I should find a way to get the funds out and my suffering
people of Dar fur and the Southern Sudanese should benefit from the funds
and invest part of it into a profitable investment that will benefit my
family and yours. I have all the documents concerning the deposit of these
funds.

I am unable to stand on behalf of my late father because of my situation
now as an asylum seeker and my status here as an asylum seeker do not
permit me to make any move towards the fund. For your time and assistance,
I have decided that 20% of the total amount will be for your effort and
another 5 % to cover all the expenses that may occur during this business
transaction and the rest, we both have to put our heads together and
invest it into a profitable business.

Please do go through the website for more information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garang
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4735725.stm
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050801-7.html
http://www.sudan.net/news/press/postedr/108.shtml

If you can assist my family, then kindly contact me immediately on the
telephone and email address below.


Best regards yours truly,

George Chol Garang


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