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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: mrs shin <shinmrs@live.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:14:17 +0100
Subject: Dearest in the Lord ,


Dearest in the Lord ,

Thanks for your prayers My Biography below and want to have reward in heaven at the last day,


I
am Mrs Serah Shinn from Korea and married to Dr. Lee Micheal Shinn who
worked with United Nation Organisation (UN) in Ivory Coast before his
surden death in the year 2010. We were happily married for 17 years
without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only few
days.

Before his death we were both born again Christians. Since
his death i decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial
home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he
deposited the sum of ($ 2.8Million) in a Finance firm here in Abidjan
the Capital City of Ivory Coast.

Recently, My private Doctor and
other goverment Doctors told me that i would not last for the next seven
months due to cancer problem. Having known my condition i decided to
donate this fund to a church or a God fearing person that will utilize
this money the way i am going to instruct herein. I want a church or
person that will use this fund for orphanages,widows,propagating the
word of God and to endeavor that the house of God is maintained.

Agape
greetings to you in the name of our God. I am very very overwhelmed to
receive your mail address concerning your interest over the work of God
and for this fund which i am entrusting in your hand for the propagation
of the word of God.

With heart full of Touch when i contacted
you on my facebook i thank God for your kind person Who is bold to Stand
firm as a child of God and stand on the truth for God's work.

Just
pray to God and read my letter very well and obey my directions i will
bring the fund to you in your country without any problem only make out
some time for God on this particular project.
Since is God who
directed me to your contact i also believed that you can do the project
is God work he will lead you because you are better than me now on
health ground and i am well convince for you to stand on the truth to
tell that you are a child of God and God have choose you for his work
only come up on faith to receive this my charity donation fund in your
home country.

Really to meet you towards this divine entrustment
was my often prayers for God to provide me someone who will not betray
or disappoint me in this vow which i made unto him. I am much impressed
over your narrations and your commitments in advancing the kingdom of
God.

I have carefully chat you on face book and could understand
it properly which i prayed and asked God to lead me to a person who will
use this fund according to my late husband's wish.

The bible
made us to know that all things work together for good, for those who
love the Lord, for those who are called according to his purpose."His
ways and thoughts are not the same as ours, and He most assuredly works
in mysterious ways.

I concluded by myself that my contact with you is God's doing, and is nothing short of His miraculous blessing.
I want you to understand that this contact with you is not by my power or might but of God by his direction.

My
motivation of making this decision to donate this fund for charity work
like maintenance house of the lord orphanages and needy ones is
because of the predicament which i found myself into and the
humiliations after many years of marriage without any children which i
decided to take all i have in this world to honor God as i know that
every soul shall give an account of his life at the last day in the
presence of God, and after death judgment follows.

I want you to
reconfirm your information's to me so that it will enable me procure
the documents that will back you up to this fund. The information's are
as follows;

1. Your Full name.........................................
2. Your Contact and country address.................
3. Your Phone number...........................................
4. Your Photo id card...............................................

Immediately
i receive these information's the certificate of deposit issued to my
late husband on the first day of deposit shall be forward to you for you
to contact the financial firm to confirm the existence of this fund
and you request them to transfer the fund to you in your country as the
new beneficiary appointed by me

Please, remember to put me in your daily prayers for God's healing.Do not close your ear when you hear the cry of needy.

Thanks and God bless you,

Mrs.Serah Shinn

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