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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: "chris"<aaaagbabian@myway.com>
Reply-To: chagbabian@yahoo.com.ar
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:49:22 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Divine Calling to work for God.


Dearest in the Lord,May the peace of the Lord be with you in Jesus Name!! AMEN!! Glory be to God that I am a born again Christian today. 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 want to share my testimony with you; I am Mr. Chris Agbabian, the Personal Lawyer of late Mr. Pinto Caesar, a Puerto Rican that lived in my Country Nigeria for several years before he died in an auto crash recently. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace! Amen!! He was a very good Christian, 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, houses etc. As his legal adviser, before his death, Mr. Pinto Caesar, 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 an individual to propagate the work of God. I sold all the properties after His death, as instructed by him. And I realized the sum of al together USD$10,600, 000.00. Therefore, 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 it 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 Treasures. Now the security company believes that what I deposited with them was Family Treasures.I had a turnaround in my life few weeks ago when I was watching a program on Trinity Broadcast Network, a Christian television channel on DSTV. The man of God was preaching concerning Ananias and Saphira. After hearing the word of God that faithful day, I gave my life to Christ and became a born again Christian. After reading my bible for sometimes, 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 to the chosen one as instructed by the owner before his death.I have asked already 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 funds to the chosen individual, for the purpose of God's work as instructed by
the owner before he died. After my long fasting and prayers, I asked God to make his choice and direct me to an honest Christian that deserves this fund for the expansion of His Kingdom work. I then came across your address on the Internet as I was seriously in search of the chosen one. 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 funds that I am moving the Trunk Boxes abroad, and the security company has since been waiting for my instructions regards to that. If you know the funds will be used wisely for Gods work as instructed by the original owner (Mr. Pinto Caesar) then do contact me back immediately for proper arrangements of getting the funds across without delay.I wait to hear from you.Yours truly,Brother Chris Agbabian.

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