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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: Faith Joseph <faith_joseph20@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: faithjoseph1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:52:20 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: My Beloved child of God,


My Beloved child of God,

I am writing this mail to you with
tears and sorrow from my heart. With due respect, trust and humanity, i
appeal to you to exercise a little apatience and read through my letter,
i  wish to contact you personally for a long term business relationship
and investment assistance in your Country so i feel quite safe dealing
with you in this important business having gone through your remarkable
profile, honestly i am writing this email to you with pains, tears and
sorrow from my heart, i will really like to have a good relationship
with you and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you,

Greeting
to you and How are you today all together with your family I am Miss
Faith Joseph, the only daughter of my late parents. I need your help to
retrived the consignment that my late Father deposited In security
company and to transfer the consignment fund my father left for me in
the security company before his untimely death.

I want to invest
the money in your country and continue my studies.The Amount is ($ 6.5
million) I will give you 20% of the Total money for your help. I assure
you in the name of the almighty Lord and I will tell you more about this
project Once you get back to me and also send you my picture.Please
always be prayerful through out your life. Any delay in your reply will
give me room in sourcing another person for this same purpose. Please
assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here.

Hoping to get your response.

I will be expecting your reply.
Thanks and God bless you.
Yours Faith

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