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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: "Faith Isaiah" <fisaiah4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: word_ofconfirmation@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:38:45 +0000
Subject: God's message


God's message
Dearest in the Lord,


Understand that religion is not Christianity. The Spirit of the Lord is upon
you, because he has chosen you to bring good news to the poor. He has sent
you to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of the sight to the
blind, to set free the oppressed and announce that the time has come when
the Lord will save his people. The Lord said to Joshua, "What I do today
will make all the people of Israel begin to honour you as a great man and
they will realize that I am with you as I was with Moses (Joshua 3 V 1).
What our God will use you to do in your country will make people to know
that God is with you and has bring you into the country to bring changes to
the helpless once. The question now is that, are you ready to perform his
service? Will you be capable to pay the price of Fear because when fear
controls your life, it will reduce the ability of God in your life as well
paralysis your future.

In brief introduction, my name is Mrs. Faith Isaiah, a widow suffering from
cancer married to Late Mr. Isaiah without a child in our 18 years of
marriage. Being considering my present health situation, I decided to donate
the only funds 1,470,000 American dollars that I inherited from my beloved
late husband which is still with the bank he kept the funds under their
custody. To be honest with you, I don't know who you are and have never seen
you in my life but I believe in the directives of the Holy Spirit because he
does not lie. Are you ready to be faithful to the trust our God has putting
in you? Our living God will richly bless your labours and endeavours to work
for His Kingdom with your entire honest and faithful mind. Please always be
putting your sister in prayers for more strength of the highest God upon my
life, and will be looking forward for your quick reply for a proper
confirmation of your readiness to carry on this service that will lead to
good news to the poor.


Yours beloved sister in Christ Jesus,
Mrs. Faith Isaiah

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