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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: albertj@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:35:54 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?VITAL?=

Calvary Greetings.
I am a preacher with the Seed Harvest Ministry, and I will like to get advice
from you. I believe the advice I need is secular to some extent, but do
have the patience to understand my intention. A few year's ago I was in
Liberia were I had established a little congregation where I preached regularly,
but the civil war escalated and the church was converted to a hospital of
soughs.

On one faithful day three Nigerian Soldiers came to me and left two trunk
boxes of Money with me and swore to come back for it. When the war in Liberia
intensified I deposited this boxes in a security vault in Europe, I was
escorted to Europe by the ECOMOG soldiers who felt the content of the trunk
boxes were documents and never cared to check them, I was air lifted to
one of the countries in Europe with other refugees then, I stayed there
and when I was getting frustrated I returned to Africa only to find out
that two of the three Soldiers died in Battle while the last was declared
MIA (Missing in Action).

After thorough investigation of the trunk boxes, I discovered that the trunk
boxes had a total amount of seven Million United States Dollars ($7,000,000,000)
which was unknown to me from the very beginning. Considering the fact that
there was no possibility of the soldiers coming back for their funds, arrangements
were immediately made to have the funds deposited in a suspense account
with a commercial bank in abroad .(the particular country in abroad I will
be disclosed as soon as you indicate your interest)

I am interested in using a small fraction of this money, much less than
one percent for a re-organization of the work, but I do not need the rest
and do not want to have any direct dealing with it. But I need someone who
will be able to use the fund better maybe for charity or something universally
profitable, I have thought of doing it myself but, my ministry is the apocalypse
and I believe and preach the soon coming of the Lord which makes me not
indulgent in reliance on money or wealth in any form.

I will be glad if you have any interest in the direction of managing or
transmitting the fund as you prefer in your capacity and understanding.
Please if you are interested, I would want you to send me the following
informations:
1. Your full name.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your phone number.
4. Your fax number.

With all these information I will take it that you are interested and the
funds will be transferred to you in provision of the above informations,
and as such you will be the only one who can lay claims to the fund and
then, I will give you all the relevant information with which you can lay
claims to the funds.

But I want you to note clearly that you will pay for the activation of the
account before you can be given full access to the account and you will
promise me that you will use the fund for good deeds.

Please reply to my private email albertjohnson@atlas.cz to show your interest.

My Regards,

Rev. ALBERT JOHNSON




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