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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: Haniya al-Rasheed <societe_ivoirienne_ci@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: haniya.alrasheeds@ymail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:37:51 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Prayer Request:















Prayer Request:


Greeting in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am Haniya al-Rasheed from Saudi Arabian and married to late Mr Mohammed Ahmed al-Rasheed who was the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Ivory Coast before he was murdered.

 
I was a Muslim and later converted to Christianity through a preaching of a Catholic Priest to me during their condolence visit to me. We married each other for good eleven year with any child due to my fibroid problem but I later decided and adopted a son from motherless home.
 
You can click on the below website to read the news about my late husband.
 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2003/03/28/819242.htm

 
It was two months days ago my doctor revealed to me that I will be having some few period to live due to my cancer decease and having known what my present condition of health will result during my surgery operation in the next few days. I decided to look for someone like you who have the fear of God that I will hand over my adopted son with my inherited fortunes worth $4,958,743.00 dollars. You will use some part of the funds to help churches and the less privileges.


I would have look for someone here in Ivory Coast but due to corruptions in Ivory Coast were they embezzled European Union aid funds to the citizens, I became afraid of them to look for someone over here because they will treating my adopted son like a slave.

For more information on what I'm telling you, you can click the below website to read the news of embezzlement.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/443903.stm



If you trust yourself and know that you can take good care of my adopted son and help the churches and the less privileges, you are highly welcomed in my heart to receive my inherited fortunes, but if you are pretending to use this means to get my inherited fortunes  and abandon my adopted son when you receive my fortunes, you are going to face a grave consequences, but if you trust yourself to accomplish my "WILL" on my adopted son, churches and the less privileges, the peace and blessing of the God almighty shall abide with you and you shall never lack any knowledge or wisdom to accomplish my "WILL'S" as the HOLY BIBLE made us to understand in Matthew 10 : 42 ( AND WHOSOEVER SHALL GIVE TO DRINK UNTO ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONE’S A CUP OF WATER ONLY IN THE NAME OF A DISCIPLES, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, HE SHALL IN NO WISE LOSE HIS REWARDS)  

I have been very closed to you people in Christianity than Islamic people because I have been disowned by my parent and my late husband families members since the very day I denounced Islamic religions and joined Christianity according to Islamic Sharia Law.
 
Now, I want you to come down here in Ivory Coast were both of us will meet each other in fresh and blood because seeing is believing in any genuine communication and to see your face who will to take good care of my adopted son but if you are unable to come down here, the fortunes will be send to you, then you will apply for my adopted son arrival in your base through a travels agency.


If you are in position to come down here, you should hasten up and come because I can't figure out what may be happening to me next according to what the medical experts observed in me that I will be undergoing surgery in the next few days.



But should encase you could not come down before the surgery operation take place, you should always add me in your daily prayers for my survival during the surgery if God almighty permit.
 
I look forward to hear you.
 
Haniya al-Rasheed



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