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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: i_a1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 17:03:59 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=20DONATION=20=20?=

Calvary greetings,

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I am former Mrs Shetimah Ahmed, now
Mrs Isabella Ahmed, a widow to Late Ahmed Mohammed .I am 68years old, I
am now a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer of the breast.
From all indications, my condition is really deteriorating and is quite
obvious that I may not live long enough,because the cancer stage has gotten
to a very severe stage. My late husband was killed during the Gulf war,
and during the period of our marriage we had a son who was also killed in
a cold blood during the Gulf war. My late husband was very wealthy and after
his death, I inherited all his business and wealth.
My personal physician told me that I may not live for long and I am so scared
about this. So, I now decided to divide part of this wealth, by contributing
to the development of evangelism in Africa, America, Europe and Asian Countries.This
mission which will no doubt be tasking had made me to recently relocated
to Nigeria, Africa where I live presently.
My adopted daughter who have always stood by me helped me to select your
church from a christian journal and prayed over it, I am willing to donate
the sum of USD$3.000,000.00Million Dollars to your Church/Ministry for the
development of evangelism and also as aids for the less privileged around
you.I want a church or individual that will use this to fund churches, orphanages
propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.

The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth.Please
note that, this fund is lying presently with a Financial Company in Europein,
and the company has branches, therefore my lawyer will file an immediate
application for the transfer of the money in the name of your ministry.
Please, do not reply me if you have the intention of using this fund for
personal use other than enhancement of evangelism.
Lastly,I want you/your ministry to be praying for me as regards my entire
life and my health because I have come to find out since my spiritual birth
lately that wealth acquisition without Jesus Christ in one's life is vanity
upon vanity.My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian.If
you have to die says the Lord, keep fit and I will give you the crown of
life.Exodus 14 VS 14 says, 'that the lord will fight my case and I shall
hold my peace'. Yours in Christ,
Mrs. ISABELLA AHMED
Glory be to God.




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