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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: joan abduallah <joan333hgg@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mrsjab1@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:04:47 +0000
Subject: Dear Beloveth.



Dear Beloveth.



I am Mrs. Joan Abdullah from London (United Kingdom); I am a British Woman as a
Citizen of London presently admitted in a
Hospital here in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia for a
medical treatment. I am married to Mr. Malik
Abdullah who worked as the Director of CHUNYU CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SDN here in
Malaysia for nineteen years before he died in the year 2008; we were married
for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for
only four days; before his death we were both believers. Since his death I
decided not to remarry. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of
$15,600,000 (Fifteen Million Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) with a
Bank here in Malaysia.



Presently this money is still in the custody of the Bank. Recently, my Doctor
told me that I will not last for the next three months due to diagnosed cancer,
aware of my condition, I decided to donate the mentioned money to a church or
charity organization through the hand of good person that will utilize this
money in the way I am going to instruct herein: I want a church, organization
or good person that will use this fund for orphanages, widows and for other
peoples that needs help and in propagation of the word of god. The bible made
us to understand that “Blessed is the hand that giveth". l took this
decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money and my
husband relatives are not Christians not even good at all because they are the
ones responsible for the death of my husband in other to have all his
properties; now I don’t want my husbands efforts to be in custody of those that
conspired his death.



This is why I am taking this decision, I am not afraid of death hence I know
where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord, Exodus
14 VS 14 says that "the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my
peace". I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of
my health hence the presence of my husband’s relatives around me always and due
to the series of diagnoses carried out on me, my doctor told me that I will not
live much longer from now because my body system is no longer responding to any
antibiotic medications, couple with the fact that my larynx was removed last
week from my anterior neck (throat) because the cancer has extended all over my
body which makes it impossible for me to talk well again.





I don’t want them to know about this development and I know that With God all
things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I will inform the bank
about you and that you will send an account to transfer the money immediately.
Pray for me because the lord is my only shepherd. My happiness is that I have
lived a worthy Christian life, whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve
him in Spirit and Truth.



Please always be
prayerful all through your life.



Best regards,

Mrs. Joan Abdullah

Please reply me
immediately on my ( mrsjab1@yahoo.com.hk ).

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