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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "John Messy" <jmessych_worshipers4555@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: believersloveworld@myway.com
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:35:25 -0700
Subject: To God be the Glory that I received Christ

Dear fellow believer,

May the peace of the Lord be with you and your entire
family in Jesus name. AMEN.

To God be the Glory that I received Christ. Having
known the truth, I had no choice than to do what is
lawful and right in the sight of God for eternal life
and in the sight of man for witness of God's mercy and
glory upon my life.

I have the pleasure to share my testimony with you; I
am Mr. John Messy, the Personal Lawyer of late Mr.
Petrovich Nazarova, a Russian Businessman that lived
in my Country Nigeria for 22 years before he died in
the plane crash last year. He was a very good
Christian, he is so dedicated to God but he was not
married nor had any child till He died, may His soul
rest in peace, Amen. Throughout His stay in my
country, he acquired a lot of properties like lands,
house properties, etc.As his legal adviser, before his
death, Mr. Petrovich Nazarova, instructed me to write
his WILL, because he had no child, he dedicated his
wealth to God. According to the WILL, the properties
have to be sold and the money be given out to a
ministry or individual for the work of God. As his
legal adviser, all the documents for the properties
were in my care. He gave me the authority to sell the
properties and give out the fund to a Ministry or
individual for the work of God.

In short, I sold all the properties after His death,
as instructed by Mr. Petrovich Nazarova before he
died. And as matter of fact, after I sold all his
properties, I realized up to USD$5,700,000.00 (Five
Million Seven Hunred Thousand US Dollars). The total
amount will be invested into God's work as instructed
by the original owner. But Instead of giving the fund
out for the work of God as instructed to me by the
owner before his death, I converted the fund to myself
with the intention of investing the fund abroad for my
personal use. I was afraid of putting the fund in the
Bank, because I have to give account to the bank on
how I got the money. I then packaged the fund in two
Trunk Boxes and deposited the Trunk Boxes with a
security company here in Nigeria. I did not want the
management of the Security Company to know the content
of the Trunk Boxes; therefore I registered the content
of the Trunk Boxes as Family Treasure. Now the
security company believes that what I deposited with
them was Family Treasure.

I had a turnaround in my life few weeks ago, when I
was watching a program on television. The name of the
program is HOSSANA HOUR on Siverbird television (STV)
and the man of God was preaching concerning Ananias
and Saphira in Acts 5:1-11. After hearing the word of
God, I gave my life to Christ and became a born again
Christian. As a born again Christian, I started
reading my bible and one day, the Lord opened my eyes
to Ezekiel 33: 18 and 19 where the word of God says:
"When the righteous truth from his righteousness, and
committee iniquity, he shall even die thereby. But if
the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which
is lawful and right, he shall live thereby". From the
scripture, I discovered that the only way I could have
peace in my life is to do what is lawful and right by
giving out the fund as instructed for the work of God
by the owner before his death.

I have asked God for forgiveness and I know that God
have forgiven me. But I have to do what is lawful and
right in the sight of God by giving out the fund to
the chosen ministry or individual, for the purpose of
God's work as instructed by the owner before his
death. After my fasting and prayers, I asked God to
make his choice and direct me to a honest Christian or
the chosen one that deserves this fund by his Grace. I
then came across your address on the Internet as I was
browsing through a marvelous site, and as a matter of
fact, it is not only you that I picked on the site
initially, but after my fervent prayer over it, then
you were nominated to me through divine revelation
from God, so these are how I received such a divine
revelation from the Lord, and I then decided to
contact you for the fund to be used wisely for things
that will glorify the name of God.

I have notified the Security Company where I deposited
the Trunk Boxes that contained the fund, that I am
moving the Trunk Boxes abroad, and the security
company has since been waiting for my authority for
the Trunk Boxes to leave my country.

So if you know that you will use this fund honestly
and wisely for God's work, then do contact me back
immediately at : believersloveworld221@gencmail.com

Waiting for your response.

Sincerely Yours,
Brother John Messy.

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