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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: Esther David <estdav_08@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Esther David <estdav08@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:01:23 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: My Donation

Greetings to you in the perfect name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

How are you doing and your family? My name is Mrs. Esther David, and I am a woman of 56 years now; actually I and my late husband are from Canada. and my husband worked with Canadian Embassy in Cote d’Ivoire Abidjan here, during his retired period he become buyer export of cocoa and coffee to the western countries before he died in the year 2012, we were married for eighteen years without a child, and in his business time, he made a deposit of €3.5 million in a fixed deposit account here in Abidjan.

I don’t know if you are aware but Cote d’Ivoire here is producing the best coffee from the rest of the producing countries. This inheritance is earned from his coffee cocoa export business. and the fund is into a suspense reserved here and the deposit purpose is for onward transfer abroad, this is why I decided to donate the funds outside the country

I want you to help me carry out this vow i made with my husband. I want you to use this fund as a donation to help propagation of word/work of God and give help to the less privilege ones. Before the death of my husband, he instructed me to donate the funds for helping churches, school and orphanage homes for God glory since we did not have any child to inherit the fund.

As faith would have it, I am not in good condition of health to carry out this assignment myself. I have been suffering from cancer which has made my life so miserable. The worst is stroke parallelism which is why I cannot walk well again. Therefore, I believe that God would use you to accomplish our desire.

please if you found this as a challenge from God and you want to partner with me in using this fund to established all this which i have told you now, then i will like you to get back to me as soon as possible and provide me with your details as stated below...

1. Your Full name
2. Your Full Address and country
3. Your Age and sex
4. Your Occupation
5. And you’re mobile or home telephone

Immediately I have your information’s details I will then give you the bank contact information’s with their address so that you will contact them on how to transfer the money to you in your country, and i will look for a lawyer who will help me to obtain in your name the legal affidavit of oath right in the ministry of justice which will prove you the present beneficiary of the fund. Let me hear from you with your details and confirm your positive answer concerning this, may God bless us all.

Remain blessed in the Lord!!
Mrs. Esther David

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