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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: viviane fall <viviane_fall@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:27:19 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: In God i trust,


Deares in christ Madras,

Beloved in Christ,Love and Greetings to you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you very much for your mail whichI received with thanks. Thank you also for your sincerity in this matter. I will be very interested for this fund to be released to you for Gods work as much as you keep to your sincerity in this matter. I am rest asured that
through you on this fund, God will save many souls and build Kingdom for himself, to his own Glory. ( Amen ) May you never run short of the glory of GOD As a Christian the first thing I did was to deny the devil despart my condition I went into fasting and prayers,
After that it occured to me to write you after all the contacts before me.

So I want your maximum cooperation in this regard. I want you to be honest and work with me on this as I STAND in AGREEMENT with you in the prescence of God Almighty. So you are free to come down for us to see face to face. That must be done, because even after getting this money you must still come down for me to have some words with you. Let me quickly tell you little about myself for I still hope that we shall someday sit and discuss and digest this my life experience by the special grace of God. I come from this part of Africa where a barren woman is treated and regarded as evil.

My late husband and I were living happily till death struck him and his brother's
decended on me and took all his belongings and are even after me up till now. But this deposit remains the only thing that my husband confided in me outside them. My husband left South Africa where he was working to Senegal and was actually killed by his peolpe who wanted nothing but his wealth. I did not see his corpse before burial as they have succeded in burrying him before I came home. They surrounded me and even accused me of killing my husband and took everything from me and I was rejected. THIS IS JUST THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER.Then I made this decision that instead of giving
it to them for their selfish use that I am going to release this fund for the work and the glory of God.

Again I will want you to always remember me in your daily prayers over my condition. I know that doctor has proposed but my faith tells me that God surely will dispose .if death should come now nobody will lay claim over this money, automatically the financial institution will claim it. As for death, I will have nothing to regret for I have accepted Christ and He owns my life.

Please, I do not expect any delay from you as my health condition cannot be predicted.
As I told you on my last mail, this money ( 9.5 million dollars ) is contained inside an iron
container and my husband deposited this consignment in a Vault security Company here in Abidjan before his death. I have visited the company after my arrival in Abidjan, and confirm the deposit of this consignment by my husband. Meanwhile, the company's Director of Operations, Dr Freedom Johnes after my proper introduction, have
presented to me all relevant documents, covering the deposit of this consignment by my husband. He have told me that I have NO DIRECT ACCESS to this consignment because, my Late Husband deposited this consignment on behalf of a Foreign Partner. They are therefore asking me to provide my foreign partner so that they will issue all release Documents on his name and release the consignment to
him directly.


I have visited the Company on my arrival and inform them that my foreign partner will be contacting them soonest for the release of this consignment I have demanded the company manager, if they can transfer this consignment to any country of our choice and they have told me that the arrangement can only be completed when they hear from
my partner.I therefore need immediately, your FULL

NAME,
NATIONALITY, DIRECT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS, FULL
ADDRESS, COMPANY'S
NAME, (IF ANY)
I will foward this to the Lawyer and you will be expected to contact them. But before then, it is very important that you contact the Lawyer here who will Legally obtain all necessary documents on your name as my foreign partner, and the beneficiary of this consignment, as the Company have demanded. Beloved, this process is not expected to take any time
through your maximum co-operation. As soon as you contact the Lawyer here in Abidjan,
he will Officially Obtain all related Documents on your Name and foward it to the Company immediately, then the Company will Officially recognise you and now issue their final Ownership Certificate to you and then release the consignment to you. Immediately the consignment containing this fund is released to you, we will then transfer the fund into your account to be used immediately for Gods work. I want you to contact the Lawyer Immediately. The Name of the Lawyer is

Barrister EUGINE JUDE CHAMBERS ABIDJAN.
Tel:0022507782433
Email:barristerjude_chambers@yahoo.fr
Barrister at Law (ESQ)
Contact the lawyer now by email and call him on telephone immediately please for these important documents. I shall be waiting to hear from you as you receive this message so that we can proceed in this matter. My health standard is counting like clock i do not know what will happen the next minute so please contact the lawyer very fast please.

Thank you very much and may God bless you abundantly.

Sincerely yours,
Rev Viviane Fall.




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