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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: "Rev Paul Orgor" <omargor12006@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: omorgor2006@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:18:12 +0000
Subject: Reply Urgent

Dear in christ,

It is by the grace of God that I received Christ,knowing the truth and
the truth have set me free.

Having knownthe truth, I had no choice than to do what is lawfuland

rightin thesight of God for eternal life and in the sight of man for
witness of God mercy and glory upon my life.

I have the pleasure to share my testimony with you,having seen your
contact through the Internet. Iam Barrister Rev Paul Orgor, the legal
adviser to late Mr.and Mrs.Thompson Williams, a American national couple
that lived in my Country Nigeria for 25 years before they both died in a
plane crash.


These couples were good Christians,they so dedicated to God but

they had nochild till they died.

Through out their stay in my country, theyacquired a lot of properties
like lands,houseproperties,As their legal adviser, before their
death,the husband Mr.Morris Thompsoninstructed me to write his WILL.
Because they had no child,they dedicated their wealth to God. According
to the WILL,theproperties have to

be sold and the money be given out to a ministryforthe work of God.As
their legal adviser,all the documents for the properties were in my
care.

He gave me theauthority to sell theproperties and give out the fund to
the Ministriesfor the work of God.

In short, I sold all the properties after theirdeath,as instructedby
Mr.Ben Brown before his death. And as matter offact,after I sold all
their properties, I realized more than$12,000,000.00(twelve million US
dollars plus),and what supposed to be thepercentage interest of myright
legal fee was firstly deducted by meoutof thetotal amountrealized from
the sold

properties,this was baseon the initial agreementbetween me and the owner
of the propertiesbeforehis death. Thereforethe total amount left to be
invested intoGod's work as instructed bythe owner,is
$12,000,000.00(tweleve millionUSdollars)only. But Instead of giving the
main fund out for the work of God as instructed to me by theowner before
his death.

I converted the fund to myself with theintention of investing the fund
abroad for my personal use. I was afraidof putting the fund in the Bank,
because I have to give account to thebank on howI got the money.

I then packagedthe fund in consignments andde posited the consignments
with a security company. I did not want the management of the Security
Company to know the content of the consignments,there fore I registered
the content of the consignments as GoldBars.Now,the security company
believes that what I deposited with them was GoldBars.

I had encounter with Christwhen Pastor Benny Hinnwas preachingon
television concerning Ananias and SaphirainActs5:1-11.After hearing the
word of God,I gave my life to christ and became a bornagain Christian.As
a born again Christian, I started reading my bible and one day, the Lord
opened my eyes to Ezekiel33:18and 19 where the word of God says: "When
the righteous truth from his righteousness, and committee iniquity,he
shall even die there by.But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do
that which is lawful and right, he shall live there by".From the
scripture, I discovered that the only way I could have peace in my life
is to dowhatis 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 knowthat God have forgiven me. But
I have to do whatis lawful and rightinthe sight of God by giving out the
fund to the chosen ministry for the purpose of God's wok as instructed
by the owner before his death.

After my fasting and prayers, I asked God to make hischoice and direct
me to a honest Christian or the chosen ministry that deserves this fund
by his Grace.

I then came across your address on the Internetas through a Christian
site, and as a matter offact,itis not only you or your ministry that I
picked on the Christiansiteinitially,but after my fervent prayer over
it, then you were nominated to me through divine revelation from God, so
these arehow I received sucha divine

revelation from the Lord, how I got your contact information,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 consignments
that contained thefund, that I am moving the consignment abroad and the
security company has since been waiting for my authority for the
consignment to leave my country and move to abroad.So if you know
thatyou will use this fund honestly and wisely for things that will
glorify God's name,then do

contact me back for more details.

You should alsoforward to meyour physical contact address were you will
like theconsignmentsdelivered to you,your direct telephone and fax
number for easy communication and to fax you the documents concerning the
consignments.


Yoursin Christ.

Barrister Rev paul ogor.

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