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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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From: "Pastor Alex Omoregie" <fglory4jesus004@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:18:27 -0800
Subject: Cry for salvation( bibles)


Dear My Beloved
May the Peace of the Lord be with you all. It is great and wonderful to give
the good report of our Lord miraculous power to you and every members of
your Ministry. At the beginning of this year our Lord Jesus Christ began to
appear to me in the air with the glory of God, going in all directions. I
stepped into footprints and started walking, walking in His spirit, walking
and seeing, through the Holy Spirit, the Towns and Villages, the people that
must be won for Him. Now those steps led my Team and I to Ovia south east
local government Community here in Edo state. Here we hold crusade and feed
more than twenty thousand people. This Village community crusade was such an
important mission that the Lord prepared me and my team for them in a
special way, visiting us with His presence. In His visitation the wind of
the Holy Spirit blew over the land, blowing the way the wind of the spirit
must have blown on the day of Pentecost. I had never witnessed it blowing
like it was in my vision. Surely throughout the world the winds of Pentecost
will blow like that in this final hour. Beloved when my team and I landed in
these Village communities my heart was thrilled as I stepped down from the
bicycle into the strong blowing wind. I thought, "It's like the winds of
Pentecost were blowing in my vision". The Lord had indeed prepared us to
take His message and His truth to a people desperate in their need for the
reality of His Love. All that God had shown me in the vision and more took
place in these communities that has become such a stronghold of Muslim town
(Islamic), Idol worshiping and false doctrine. As my team and I move around
the communities immediately we arrive, I knew that we were sent of God and
nothing could defeat us or the crusade. We were invading the stronghold of
the devil, invading the community where the devil has more control, than any
other community in our Nation. We were told that ninety percent of the
people dwelling in this community involved with Islamic worshiping (Muslims)
and Idol worshiping. The Islamic and Idol worshipers in this community has
become so entwined with Christianity that most of the people cannot separate
God from the devil. We were told that the two different rulers of these
communities have given these communities to the devil with blood sacrifices,
possibly human blood. These are Village communities chained in darkness for
hundreds of years, communities whose history is one of continuous rebellion
and atrocities in our Nation. We were also told about a certain market where
one could buy human flesh. Think of it human flesh available to the buyer.
How do they get it? Murder, death by malnutrition and related disease.
Beloved we cried out in desperation. Yes, we fed more than twenty thousand
people but the only one who can really help them out of their bondages is
JESUS. Revelation 21:8, "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and
all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone: which is the second death." On the first night God touched upon
this verse in a great way and on the last night it came forth with
overwhelming force and power because God is tired of people's sins. Truly we
had a taste of the sword, God's word divided right from wrong as God poured
His convicting power down on the crowed, with the winds of Pentecost and His
greatness. Beloved in a minute thousand came to Christ looking to Him,
Crying out for Him. It was a wonderful sight to behold indeed. Through the
spirit of God the murderers began to be called out. The Lord told me about a
woman in the crowd, who murdered her twins babies and also a man who
murdered his neighbor, poisoned him and covered it up, putting the blame on
someone else. Another person has had to suffer for his crime. Beloved I have
never seen God moved the way He moved that night, uncovering sins one after
another, hideous crimes. Beloved we thank God for the wonderful work you are
doing to support ministries like ours. We pray, may our Lord Jesus Christ
continue to keep your work for His grace. Beloved as you can see we are
urgently in need of 14 Study Bibles and 10 Large Print Bibles and some other
study materials. We wish to request 34 bibles for 34 HIV/AIDS victims in
this community who accepted Christ. This people do not have money to
purchase Bible for themselves. They are highly in need. Please help us to
help these souls. Thanks and God bless you. We hope to hear from you very
soon.

Yours in Christ Service,
Pastor Alex Omoregie
Salvation Gospel Ministry.
1A osagie street off saple rd,
country home rd,ugbor road,Benin city,
Edo State,Nigeria.
Email us : fglory4jesus@yahoo.com

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