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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Rev. Lawrence Gil" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rev.lawrencegil201@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:08:07 -0000
Subject: Re: Greetings From Rev. Gil

test 201 rdpThe Founder/General Overseer Of

Water of Life Ministry

My name is Rev. Lawrence Gil, I am 72 yrs old of age from Israel and I reside at No 5 F line Haatso Accra, Ghana. I have seven branches as a ministry in Ghana, 2 in Ivory Coast, 1 in Sierra Leone and also 1 in Gambia. I have many investment and good shares in various banks in Ghana. I have spent all my life on ministry and cooperate business both in Ghana and some other African countries.

I am a very godly man with all cost I care about orphanage and privileged people, since when I had an experience of my difficult to sleep and give rest. Later in the year 2010 November I got a medical report, as my personal doctor testified that I have lungs cancer at a very bad stage, which can easily take off my life soon. I found it uneasy to survive myself, because a lot of my investments cannot be run and managed by me again. I lost my family back in Israel before i moved to Ghana, and since then, i have only lived to do the work of God. I make donations, to churches, motherless baby/orphanage homes/people that need money for survival so they will have food on their tables. This i do from One nation to another.

Therefore I am writing this letter to all God fearing people, who can take up this work from me since am no longer as strong as i used to be to be able to continue doing this work of God on my own, to contact me urgently . I have made lot of donations here in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia, so I deem it right to extend it around the world and i pray you will accept this upon yourself to bring this dream to actualization and extend this service of humanity to as many many more cities and places as possible around you.

A well detailed explanation of this all, will be given to you upon your response. Now am so much with God, and already feeling like a new born. Am no longer afraid of death curse i know it mite come anytime and i will be with my God. May the lord bless you as you reach me, and may your days be long as you accept this wonderful work of God to Humanity.

To keep you informed, if your intentions will be to accept this money and convert to your personal use without using it for the work of God, You better not respond at all, because the punishment for such an act will be great. This does not mean that you will not keep any part of what ever you receive for yourself and family, but at least 80% of what ever received should comfortably go into helping other. Like i said earlier, I will give more information to you as I await your response immediately.

Best Regards

Rev. Lawrence Gil

NB.From there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 4:29

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