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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: "From Albert Evra" <evra1@sify.com>
Reply-To: albertevra@sify.com
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:20:37 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Dear beloved in Christ,




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Dear beloved in Christ,

It is by the grace of God that I received Christ,knowing the
truth and the truth have set me free.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 have the pleasure to share my testimony with you,having
seen your contact from the Internet. I am Albert Evra
the legal adviser to late Mr.and Mrs. Christian
Goetz,a German couple that lived in my country TOGO
for 25 years before they both died in a plane crash
late last year. These couple were good Christians, they were
so dedicated to God but they had no child till they died.

Throughout their stay in my country, they acquired a lot of
properties like lands, house properties, etc. As their legal
adviser, before their death, the husband Christian Goetz
instructed me to write his WILL. Because they had no child,
they dedicated their wealth to God. According to the WILL,
the properties have to be sold and the money be given out to
a ministry for the work of God. As their 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 the Ministries for the work of God.To cut the
story short, I sold all the properties after their death, as
instructed by my client,Mr.Christian Goetz before his death.

And as matter of fact, after I sold all their
properties,expectedly, I realized a huge amount of money
that runs into millions of dollars,and what supposed to be
the percentage interest of my right legal fee was firstly
deducted by me out of the total amount realized from the
sold properties, this was based on the initial agreement
between me and the owner of the properties before his death.

Therefore,the total amount left to be invested into God's
work as instructed by the owner is $1,000,000.00 (one
million US dollars) only. But Instead of giving the main
fund out for the work of God as instructed to me by my
client 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 got the money. I
then packaged the fund in consignments and deposited the
consignments with a security company.

I did not want the management of the Security Company to
know the content of the consignments,therefore I registered
the content of the consignments as Gold Bars. Now, the
security company believes that what I deposited with them
was Gold Bars. I had encounter with Christ when Pastor Benny
Hinn was preaching on television concerning Ananias and
Saphira in Acts 5:1-11. After hearing the word of God, I
gave my life to Christ and became a born again Christian.

As a born again Christian, I started reading my bible and
one day, the Lord opened my eyes to Ezekiel 33: 18 and 19.
>From the scripture, I discovered that the only way I could
have peace in my life is to do that is lawful and right by
giving out the fund as instructed for the work of God by my
client.I have asked God for forgiveness on my initial
thought concerning the money,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 fund to the chosen
ministry for the purpose of God's work as instructed by my
client before his death.

After my fasting and prayers, I asked God to make his choice
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 Internet as I was
browsing through a Christian site, and as a matter of fact,
it is not only you or your ministry that I picked on the
Christian site initially, but after my fervent prayer over
it, then you were nominated through divine revelation from
God so that was how I received such a 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 the fund, 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 be moved abroad.So if you know that you will use
this fund honestly and wisely for things that will glorify
God's name,then do contact me back,ASAP.


Your prompt response will be highly appreciated.

God bless you.
Yours in Christ.
Albert Evra



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