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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: saloch joes <s.j09@outlook.fr>
Reply-To: <salochjoes@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:51:41 +0000
Subject: Dear in Christ Jesus.


Dear in Christ Jesus.

Greetings to you in the wonderful name of
the only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The grace of God, peace and love
be with you for your output and your coming in the middle of Jesus
Christ, our Lord. Amen.

My name is Mrs. Jose Saloch; Origin of
Kuwait, I'm married to the late Mr. Ahmad Jafri, who worked with Kuwait
Embassy in Cote d'Ivoire for nine years before he died in the year 2013.

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
born again Christian. Since his death I decided not to remarry or get a
child outside my marital home which the Bible is against. When my
husband was alive, he left the sum of seven million five hundred
thousand dollars ($ 7.5 million) in a trust account with a bank here in
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire oest and ric, re f will recently, after my
health, my doctor told me that I would not last for the next eight
months, due to my cancer problem.

He told me that in the next 2
months, will be a differential of this type of cancer to the bones and
I'm not going to live again, what disturbs me most is my stroke
sickness. Having known my condition I decided to donate this Fund to a
Christian single, and the organization or church I know I might need it
and which will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here
according to the desire of my late husband before his death.

Currently
this money is still with the Bank. I want this Fund to be used in work
activities as liberation, aid to pastors families, orphanages,
under-privileged in society and Christian schools, poor people in their
midst and to maintenance of churches and for pr opagar the p word d and
God and endeavor that the House of God is maintained. I took this
decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and
my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's
efforts to be used by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this
money will be used in an ungodly way. That's why I'm taking this
decision.

The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the
hand that gives. " I'm not afraid of death hence I know where I'm going.
I know I'll be in 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. With God all things
are possible.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you
the contact of the Bank for you to contact directly with them to
transfer s ubsequente. I will also send you a detailed map of the
utoridad and that will prove that the recipient of my gift back. I want
you and your family to always pray for me because the Lord is my
shepherd. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian.
That you want to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth.

Please
be in prayer for his entire life, any delay in your reply will give me
room in sourcing another person for this same purpose. Please make sure
that you will act accordingly as I stated here. I am waiting for your
reply soon.

Rest blessed in the Lord.

Yours in Christ,
Mrs. Saloch Jose.

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