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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Elisabeth Ross" <officebox94@att.net>
Reply-To: savethepoor.needy@rocketmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:37:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Jesus Love You / Reply Asap.



Dear Brethren,

We are christian charity organization founded by Universal Life Church  under the name SAVE THE POOR  & NEEDY wish to announce that we are seeking to employ men and woman who are capable and willing to work with our charity organization on a community service for humanity and for God.

In the world we are in today there are millions of people who are desperately in need of food in order to survive but lack of it has sent many of them to early grave despite that lot of us has more than enough to eat and even throw away in waste.  

But is very important for us to know that God is against wastage when there are million of souls out there that need our help and food. Due to this desire to give a helping hand, the Universal Life Church decided to set up this community service in order to help men and women who are in need of food, cloths, medicine and shelter in our communities which covers Canada and United States of America.

God cherishes cheerful givers and the merciful in return he promised to lift and bless them in all they do. Therefore, we have men and woman of like  minds who donate to our organization every time so that we can meet the need of the poor and those who have no food to eat.

Some of  these donors donate, houses to shelter the poor, Food, cloths and money (such as in cash, checks and money order) to us so as to carter for the needs of the millions of people out there who has gat no food to eat, cloths to wear and homeless.

Now, we need people who are willing to work from home it doesn't matter if you are presently employed with three jobs or more, the organization is willing to employ you as long as you can make hours of your time in a day available to work from home for the organization for 3 days in a week with an attractive salaries.

The organization allows you to any hour of the day you wish to work your 2 hours in each of the 3 days of the week as you like  so as to suit your self especially when you are already employed.

If you are interested to work for God and service to humanity, kindly forward us the following information:

1. Full Name
2.Full Address
3. Age
4. Sex
5.Occupation, if any
6.Direct Telephone Numbers

We look forward to hear from you soon. Thanks.
Thanks and God bless you.

Yours sincerely,
Pastor Mrs. Elisabeth Ross.
SAVE THE POOR  & NEEDY
Universal Life Church
U.S.A & CANADA.

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