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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Rev.Joseph Moore" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <revjosemoor12@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 18:39:41 -0700
Subject: YOU ARE BLESSED

Greetings In The Name Of Jesus Christ. When the Lord speaks, it would surely come to reality. I received Christ,knowing the truth and the truth have set me free. Having known the truth,I had no choice than to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God for internal life and in the sight of man for witness of God's mercy and glory upon my life. I have the pleasure to share my testimony with you, I am Rev.Joseph Moore, the legal adviser to late Mr. and Mrs Imhuasen Joseph a Russian couple that lived in my Country Nigeria for 25 years before they died in the Belleview plane crash. They are good Christian, They so Dedicated to God but they had no child till they died. Throughout their

stayed in my country, they acquired a lot of properties like Lands, house properties, etc. As their legal adviser, before their death, they instructed me to write their WILL. Because they had no child, they dedicated their wealth to God. According to the WILL, the properties have to be sold and the money will be given out to a ministry for the work of God, Orphanages and less privileges ones. As Their legal adviser, all the documents for the Properties were in my care. They gave me the authority to sale the properties and give out the fund to the Ministries for the work of God. Then I sold all the properties after their death, as they instructed and as matter of fact, after I sold all their properties, I realized more than Fifteen million, five hundred thousand US Dollars ($15.5m), and what supposed to be the percentage interest of my right legal fee was firstly deducted by me out of the total amount realized from the sold properties, this was base on the initial agreement
between me and the owner of the p

I was afraid of putting the fund in the Bank, because I have to give account to the bank on how I got the money. I then packaged the fund in consignments and deposited the consignments with a security company. I did not want the management of the Security Company to know the content of the consignments; therefore I registerethe content of the consignments as Gold Bars. Now, the security company believes that what I deposited with them was Gold Bars. I had encounter with Christ when Rev. Billy Graham was preaching on television concerning Ananias and Sapphire in Acts 5:1-11. After hearing the word of God, I gave my life to Christ and became a born again Christian. As a born again Christian, I started reading my bible and one day, the Lord opened my eyes to Ezekiel 33: 18 and 19 where the word of God says: "When the righteous truth from his righteousness, and committed iniquity, he shall even die thereby. But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful
and right, he shall live thereby

Prompt response will be highly appreciated.

Yours in Christ

Rev.Joseph Moore

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