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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.Josephine" <ghanaspeaker@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kwame_josephine1@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:24:10 -0700
Subject: Please dearest in the Lord i bring you Calvary Greetings

Calvary Greetings,

I pray that this letter meets you in good health, God will grant you
the willingness and interest to digest this humble narrations though
it might be so surprise and strange because we have not met or seen each
other before.

My name is Mrs Josephine Kwame a widow to Mr.Donatus kwame who was a
competent business man and A top ARMY officer. here in GHANA West
Africa, we were married for many yrs without any child till his death
in October 2005 after a brief illness. Due to the promise which i
revered to him on the alter at the day of our church wedding i decided
not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which is
against the holy bible.

My happiness is that my late husband lived a life of a true worthy
Christian and he has this plan before his death which he pleaded with
me to appropriate it to accomplishment. He took this decision with me
to use this fund in building an orphanage in his name that will
accommodate thousands of children, and also to use part of this fund
in helping the less fortunate and to spread the gospel of the lord to
the remote places of the world.

He made the deposit of $(15.Million)USD in a Finance Security Company
here in Ghana. Recently, my Doctor told me that i would not last for
the next 5 months due to cancer & stroke illness.

Having known my condition i decided to seek for a competent and
reliable God fearing person or church to entrust this fund to utilize
this fund the way i narrated above as my late husband desired.

The Bible made us to understand that "Blessed is the hand that giveth.
I took this decision because i don't have any child that will inherit
this money and my late husbands relatives are not Christians and I
don;t want my late husbands efforts to be used by unbelievers.

I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly
way. This is why I am taking this decision. I am not afraid of death
hence i know where i am going. I don't need any telephone
communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence
of my husbands relatives are around me always. i don't want them to
know about this development.

As soon as i receive your reply i shall give you the contact of my
attorney so you can contact him directly and he will change all
documents that will legalize you to have access over this fund. I will
also issue you an affidavit that will prove you as the new beneficiary
of this fund in the Finance Security Company the contacts of the
security company will also be given to you to enable you contact them
officially. I want you and the church to always pray for me because
the lord is my shepherd.

My happiness is that i and my late husband lived a life of a worthy
Christian. Whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve him in
spirit and Truth.

Please always be prayerful all through your life and pray to God to
forgive me my sins. Contact me on my private email bellow, any delay
in your reply will give me room in sourcing for another church or a
God fearing person for this same purpose.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as i stated herein.
please the contact of my attorney will be giving to you after
receiving your positive reply for you to contact him directly on
behalf of me he will handle the project.Please send your reply to my
private email at (kwame_josephine1@yahoo.com)

Yours Sister In Christ,
Mrs Josephine Kwame

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