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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: tb joshua <j.tb15@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:25:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: God bless you,


Dear Friend,
 

I greet you in the name of God I know this mail might come to you as a
surprise but take and treat with love as Christ love the church.
 

I am prophet TB JOSHUA, of Believers Love Word. am requesting for your
assistance in an ongoing project in our church in Nigeria, we about to 
building an orphanage home for the less privileged in Africa which
headquarters will be in Nigeria.
 
 
I want to raise fund from all pastors and clergy that God might instruct
to help either in cash or in kind. I’m a prophet and servant of God but
I cant do it all alone, because a tree cannot make a forest , and as
the holy bible says in 1st Corinthians chapter 13:1-6 Though I speak
with the tongues of man as of angels and have not the charity, I am
became as sounding as brass or tinkling cymbals, verse-2 And though I
have the gift of prophecy and understanding mysteries and all knowledge,
and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountain and have
not charity, I’m nothing verse-3 And though I bestow all goods to feed
the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it
profited me nothing. Verse-4 Charity sufferer long and kind, Charity
voted not itself, is not puffed up.
 
 
God will bless you for any fund raised for this Godly project that will
go a long way in helping us to grow orphans in the name and to the glory
of God, your quick response to this mail will help us in Jesus name
Amen.
 

God bless you,

prophet TB JOSHUA.
synagogue CHURCH
P.O. BOX 13563 Ikotun, Lagos.
Tel:  +234-8189432748
Email:  tbjosuachurch@yahoo.com
Email:  tb_joshua87@yahoo.com

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