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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: juliet koffi <juliet_koffi@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:14:46 +0100 (BST)
Subject: God Blees You


Dear Pastor Robert Ised,

Thank you for your quick response to my mail,

I am a true Christian from (CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD) in Malaysia; I was married to Late Dr.George Koff, we were married for eleven years without a child.

Please I what to know where your church, again if the church need the security company’s full address where my husband deposited the sum of$2.6Million (Tow Million six hundred thousand U.S. Dollars)? The company did not know the contents of the box I believe, I will advice on what to tell them.

Matthew 14:15-21:
15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
18 He said, Bring them hither to me.
19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.


I will send our family attorneys contact to you whom you will get more information’s from, or he will contact you, because my condition now.

Your Beloved
Mrs Juliet Koffi


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