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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: Grace Benson <grace_benson56@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:58:33 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Can you help the people of God?



















































Can you
help the people of God?

i am mrs, grace benson, from france a widow to late jerry
benson, i am 59 years old widow, i am a new   christian convert, suffering from
long time cancer of the breast,from all indication my conditions is really
deteriorating and it is quite obvious that i wouldn't live more than three
months, according to my doctors, and in all indication regards to medical
analysis, this is because
  
    the cancer stage has gotten to a very
bad stage that no hope for me to be a living person again, my  late husband was
killed during the france raid against terrorism in togo, and during the period
of our marriage we could not produce any child, my late husband was very wealthy
and after his death, i inherited all his business and wealth.

    the
doctors has advised me that i may not live formore than three months due to my
bad health,  so i now decided to use my late husband wealth to help the poor and
helpless people and orphanagehomes and also contribute to the development of the
church in america, Africa, asia and europe especailly create solution to problem
of less previllaged ones.
 i selected you after visiting the website i prayed
and fast over it, i am willing to donate to you the  sum of $4.5 million
dollars, for you to use the fund for the good of mankind as i desire
 please
i want you to note that the fund is lying in a bank in togo and upon my
instructions to the bank  in togo they will transfer the fund to your account in
your country where you will receive it and  use it as i desire
  lastly,i
honestly pray that this money when transfered to you will be used for the said
purpose even though am late then, because i have come to find out that wealth
acquisition without christ is vanity and i made the promise to god that the fund
will be use to build his temple.
   may the grace of our lord jesus the love
of god and the fellowship of god be with you and your  family.
i am waiting
for your urgent reply.
      God bless
you.
  Mrs, Grace
Benson



 

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