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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: sister uwa <sister_ci7@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:41:33 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Dearest in Christ In Christ Pastor Robert Ised


Dearest in Christ In Christ Pastor Robert Ised ,

Love and Greetings to you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you very much for your mail which I received with thanks. Thank you also for your sincerity in this matter. I want you to devote yourself for this mission, to the Glory of our God in heaven.I will want you to bear in mind that I have contacted you in this matter with a sincere mind and in goodfaith.

There is no special process on this matter, as much as you can co-operate with me. 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 ). There is no specific church for this money to be used in. I want the money to be put to good Christian Churches you can discover, Motherless Homes and also the less priviledged ones.

May you never run short of the glory of GOD. As you should be aware, it is very important that you visit me here in Abidjan if not before the completetion of
this matter, immediately this matter is completed. This is very important to note please, as that will give us more opportunity to discuss more about the use
of this money.

As a Christian the first thing I did before contacting you was to deny the devil, despite my condition I went into fasting and praying, After that, it occured to me
to write you after all the contacts before me. I hope that you will not betray this confidence I am about building on you. I therefore want your maximum
co-operation in this regard so that we can work hand in hand to make this objective a success.

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, if you wish. Otherwise, that must be done, because even after getting this money to you, you must still come down for me to have some words with you. I pray that God will keep me alive until then.

Let me quickly tell you little about myself for I still hope that we shall someday sit down, discuss and digest 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, toSierra-Leone 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 this fund 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 doctors has proposed but my faith tells me that God surely will intervane .But even if death should come now nobody will lay claim over this money, automatically the financial institution will claim it. Therefore, I will appreciate your effort in this matter to be a little bit faster. As for death, I will have nothing to regret for I have accepted Christ and He knows every thing about my life. Please, I do not expect any delay from you as my health condition cannot be predicted.

This money ( $15Million) is secured in a Bank here in ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE by my husband before his death. I have visited the Bank after my arrival in Abidjan, and confirm the deposit of this money by my husband.

Meanwhile, the Bank Officials after my proper introduction, have presented to me all relevant documents, covering the deposit of this money by my
husband. The bank have told me to present to them the Bank Account where I wish this money to be transferred to, so that they will commence this transfer immediately.

Meanwhile, contact for now, the Lawyer I have contacted for this matter on telephone so that he can give you more details on this. I have informed the Lawyer about you and tell him that you will call him.

The name of the Chamber is CAPITAL CHAMBERS ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE
COTE D'IVOIRE, and the name of the Lawyer is
Barrister Gregg Ndlovu. Tel:0022508724887
E-mail: capitlaw@yahoo.com

Thank you very much and may God bless you abundantly.

Please I will want you to call the hospital to speak with me.The name of the hospital is APPEX MEDICAL CENTRE.The name of the doctor is MR GIDEONE UDUH,their telephone number is 0022507936137.Just call the hospital line and tell them that you want to speak with one of their patient in WARD A Mrs Praise Uwaoma
.

Sincerely yours,
Mrs Praise Uwaoma.




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