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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: williams r_mary <r_marywilliams@yahoo.ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:40:59 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Dearest One in Christ ,


Dearest One in Christ ,

Greetings in the name of our Lord.

I am just coming back from the hospital for routine check and decided to write you back immediately. I hope all is well with your family and other members of your family.

I need your constant prayer for my miraclous healing hence I believe by the prayer of the saint will totally heal me because the bible says" whatsoever we desire when we pray we should believed we shall received Mark 11:24.

I want you also to commit this project unto the hand of God so that he will give you the strenght and grace to handle this transaction to it's glorious end. It will interest me if you can give thought about you being choosen in this project hence it is God's making that you are a vessel to the completion of it while I hope and pray that you live up to the expectations with the special grace of God.

I want you to understand that I am persuaded to fulfil the desire of my late husband, that is why I am going to trust and believing your sincerity to appropriate this fund accordingly. My late husband decided to give this offering unto God and I have no right to stop it, because bible says" therefore, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. James 4:17. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith Gal.6:10.

I will want you to assure me that this fund will be used according to the desire of my late husband as soon as it is transfered to your bank account or any account that you may desire. My benevelence is in fulfilment of my late husband desire and decesion to promote humanitarian and Charirty services with much emphasis on propagation of the gospel. This fund must be handled with every appropriation, accountability and prudence ok.

May I clarify that I did not give you this money for a personal use, rather to the LORD and to used for GOD'S work by you. I have to donate this fund out to a God fearing human. The ungodly brother inlaws to my late husband have deprived me of all valuable and physical of my late husband and also subjected me to maltreatment, they do not know about this and I would not want them to know as to avoid problems.

This is my bonafide right of inheritance that has been recoganised by the bank already and this fund Is not in dispute and will never be in dispute if I should donate within my area, but if it leaks to them, that means I will face more perscution and humiliation.

Importantly, considering my detoriating and ailing health in which I am faced with life uncertainty, I will want to make you officially the beneficiary of these fund immediately as to enable the bank recorganize and transfer the fund to your bank account or any account you may desire without any further delay. I will wait for your detailed response and will give you the contact of the bank immediately as well tell the bank about you as my overseas partner who will be receiving the fund. These will also enable you to confirm the exisstance of the fund.

There is no much protocols in this except your assurance and promise that you will handle this project as I outlined in my previous mail. Your next mail will be comfirmation to that. The only requirement is to obtain an affidavit of oath/claim which will make you lagelly/officialy the foreign beneficiary of the fund and approval letter which will authorise the concerned bank to effect the wire transfer into your church account.

I emplore you to always interceed for me prayerfully, I believe with prayers I must receive my healing miracle as we are serving a faithful GOD Romans 1:17. I believe by the prayer of the saint will totally heal me because the bible says" whatsoever we desire when we pray we should believed we shall received Mark 11:24. 1 Thess.5:14, Paul say’s now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient to all men. So I want you to understand with your support, the work of our Lord Jesus Christ can get to the poor.

1 Thess 4:2-3, continue in prayer and watching in the same with thinks-giving:3-v with all prayer also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of Christ, for wish are also in bonds. This is to say, that the total fund should be use for the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ by you.

The fund is in us dollars amounted $4.5 million us dollars ok. Presently, I'm not in Kuwait, I'm residencing in 14 rue de canal. (Postal address)11BP ABIDJAN 158 ABIDJAN 11 COTE D'IVOIRE where my late husband worked for Twenty-Six years before he died in the year 2003.

God bless you in all your respective endeavours while
I wait for your prompt response shortly.

Joyfully sister in Chrsit,
Rosemary Williams(Mrs)..
(Residence) 14 rue de canal. (Postal address)11BP ABIDJAN 158 ABIDJAN 11
COTE D'IVOIRE.



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