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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: "Mrs.Salva Kiir Mayardit" (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:40:30 -0700
Subject: Compliments

Dear Friend,

Compliments of the day to you.

May l briefly introduce myself to you,I am contacting you in confidence, and as a means of developing a cordial and fruitful business relationship.
I am Mrs.Salva Kiir Mayardit few weeks ago Heavily armed Sudanese army troops and tanks lined the dusty streets of my town Khartoum, Sudan's capital,investigating The helicopter accident in which Mr. Garang perished in the helicopter he was traveling with when he crashed into the side of a southern Sudan mountain range in bad weather,
killing him and 13 other people on board, Sudan's government said today.i know something about it,After 7 years August 1, 2005, they just come and got me arrested,
I and my family are going through a lot of stress and humiliation from the entire country especially those at the helm of affair of the country. Virtually all our family account has been frozen, months ago which leads to the seizure of our fund that was deposited with a Switzerland bank totally $545,000,000.00 millions united state dollars.
they forget during the swearing-in of my hunsband Salva Kiir Mayardit, vowed to complete the peace process of his predecessor, John Garang, worked 21 year so hard for.
"I wish to reaffirm my personal commitment as well as that of the SPLM to ensure the opening of political space to all parties and groups, including the media, within the parameters clearly defined in the interim constitution.
In addition, Me and my husband. Salva Kiir, longtime second-in-command in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, was flanked by our Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha. The three of them joined their raised
hands in a show of solidarity.
Garang, who survived multiple assassination attempts and several violent splits in his rebel movement, why should i do anything to kill him? i did not kill him or know anything about is helicopter accident crashed,
I am contacting you with the hope that you will be of great assistance to me, I currently have within my reach the sum of 36 million U.S dollars cash which l intend to use for
investment purposes outside Sudan.

This money came as a result of a payback contract deal between me and my husband and a Russian firm in our country's multi-billion dollar
oil wealth evenly between northern and southern Sudanese and steel plant. The Russian partners returned my share being the above sum.

Government has intensified their probe into my family financial
resources which has led to the freezing of all our accounts, local and
foreign, the revoking of all our business licences and have arrested me
my First son. will be the one to handle this trasaction with you,
In view of this I acted very fast to withdraw this money from
one of our finance houses before it was closed down. I have deposited
the money in a security company with the help of very loyal officials of
my late husband. No record is known about this fund by the government
because there is no documentation showing that we received such funds.
Due to the current situation in the country and government attitude to
my family, I cannot make use of this money within the sub-African region, thus I seek your help
me invest this funds. Bearing in mind that you will assist me, l have decided to give you 20% of the
total sum. Please kindly reply through mrs.salvakiirmayardit@ymail.com
include your personal telephone and fax numbers. Your URGENT response is needed.
Regards,
Mrs.Salva Kiir Mayardit.

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