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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: vinola1967@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:31:45 -0800
Subject: My Divine Peace

Beloved in Christ,
It is a priviledge to hear from God and it gives me
joy to relate my
testimony to you haven recieved instruction from God
through divine revelation.

I was a Moslem and a retired military top officer in
Nigerian Army that
served under the past military regime. I was the
financial secretary
to the Armed Force Ruling Council (AFRC). With my
position as a financial
secretary, I was able to divert up to $30,000,000.00
(Thirty million)
U.S Dollars, into my personal Bank Account, hoping to
invest the money
when I’m retired.

Immediately I got retired, I was converted from Moslem
to Christian when
I was preached the words of God through my cousin
Pastor Paul Osakwe.
I then gave my life to Christ and became a born again
Christain.

Since I gave my life to Christ, I had no rest of mind.
Some times I think
of the souls I killed when I was a soldier and the
dubious ways I diverted
my country’s money into my Personal Bank Account.

I
then decided to seek
the face of God for forgiveness and after fasting and
prayer through
Divine Revelation, the Almighty God revealed to me
that the only way
I could have rest of mind is when I used all my money
to do the work
of God. I immediately disclosed my revelation to my
Pastor and he was
happy with me.

I have been thinking of the particular thing to do for
my God before
this present civilian president of my country set up a

panel (Honourable
Oputa Panel) to probe the Bank Account of the past
Military officers
like me. Instead of loosing this money to my
government, I quickly withdrew
my money out of my Account and deposited the money in
a finance and security
company for safety.

My Pastor has adviced me to sneak out of the country
with the money to
sow it into a ministries abroad. I have decided to sow
this money into
your ministry. I am making arrangement to come over to
your country but
you need to receive this money from the finance and
security company
in cash before I come over.

The cash has been packaged by the security company in
consignments and
ready for shipment but the security company requires
the address of the
receiver. Please send to me your names, address and
your telefax number
where I can fax the Airway Bill to you to claim the
consignment over
there.

I will be coming over to your ministry with my family
for thanksgiving
as soon as I sent out this money to you. Please act
fast because I dont
want the panel to know that I want to leave the
country, they might suspect
my intention to leave now that the probe is going on.

I look forward to your response

God bless you.
Please send reply through the following email addresses

vin_olav@yahoo.com or vinola@tsamail.co.za.

In His Grip
Ola Vincent


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