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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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Fraud email example:

From: "faith isaiah" <belovedjesus001@centrum.sk>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:35:24 +0100
Subject: Pure Love from Mrs. Faith Isaiah for Missionary Decision's service

Pure Love from Mrs. Faith Isaiah for Missionary Decision's service

From: Mrs. Faith Isaiah
Writing from the hospital.

Beloved in the Lord,

God bless you and your entire family.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon you, because he has chosen yo u to bring good news to the po or. He has sent you to proclai m liberty to the captives and recovery of the sight to the b lind, to set free the oppresse d and announce that the time h as come when the Lord will sav e his people. The Lord said to Joshua, "What I do today will make all the people of Israel begin to honour you as a grea t man and they will realize th at I am with you as I was with Moses (Joshua 3 V 1). What ou r God will use you to do in yo ur country will make people to know that God is with you and has bring you into the countr y to bring changes to the pove rty homes.

The question now is that, are you ready to handle his servic e without applying betrayals t o the trust of God in your lif e? Will you be capable to pay the price of Fear because when fear controls your life, it w ill reduce the ability of God in your life as well paralysis your future. Are you ready to confirm your honest and faith fulness which the good God has reviewed to me in prayers? Ar e you ready to open the mouth ofpoor people to sing praises to the Holy Name of Godthrough blessings they will re ceive from this donation funds that God has chosen you to ha ndle? Your answer to this ques tions will be recorded in thebook of lifewhich you knows that after dea th, judgement follows as you c an see that we are strangers o n the earth, we came to do theservice of Godwhich every each of us will gi ve account of his/her service on the earth. So, as you finis h reading this message, be in spirit and seek theface of Godfor him to enlighten you more in his purpose of directly unk nown sister Faith Isaiah with this below mentioned hugeamount of money for his service.

In brief introduction, my name is Mrs. Faith Isaiah, a widow suffering from throat/breast cancer married to Late Mr. Isa iah who was a contractor, with out a child in our 18 years of marriage. Being considering m y present health situation, I decided to donate the only fun ds US$9,850,000.00 million US dollars that I inherited from my beloved late husband which is still with the affiliated o ffice of the security company inLondonthat he kept the funds under t heir custody. Our living God w ill richly bless your labours and endeavours to work for His Kingdom with your entire hone st and faithful mind. Please a lways be putting your sister i n prayers for more strength of God upon my life, and will be looking forward for your quic k reply for a proper confirmat ion of your readiness to carry on this service that will lea d to good news to the poor.

Send me your complete names, y our home address, telephone nu mber and your identification p hoto which I will submit to th e security company office in L ondon for the final delivery of trunk box containing this do nation amount to your home add ress.

Please be in spirit and read this message and reply urgently

Yours in Christ Jesus,
Mrs. Faith Isaiah

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