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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: grace emmanuella <graceemmanuella97@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: grace emmanuella <graceemmanuella90@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:18:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Remain blessed in the Lord


Remain blessed in the Lord 
My dearest in Christ, 
Peace be upon you with God's mercy and blessings, AMEN. As you read this email, May God bless you as you devote your time reading this mail.
I'm Mrs. Grace Emmanuella, I'm suffering from cancerous ailment. I was married to Mr. Benjamin Michael Emmanuella, my husband worked with an oil company Chevron / Texaco in London United Kingdom for twenty years before he died in the year 2013 during the Spanish train crash which took him away from me. copy paste the link below for news info on edition.cnn.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/spain-train-crashBefore the death of my late beloved husband, he deposited the sum of £7.8 Million (Seven Million Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds sterling) with one of the famous Bank here in London United Kingdom.
Recently, I'm currently in a private hospital for the past two months undergoing treatment and my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and cancerous problems I'm suffering from. I have decided to donate this funds to charity Home through you and want you to use my husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows and charities to provide succor for the less privileged once worldwide.
I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused, so in this faith I have decided so please be Obliged to do this for GOD.
Note: you will take 30% percent out of the total funds for your personal use as compensation for doing this work of God. And the remainder 70 % percent you will use it for this good and generous work of God as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth so far before my deadly time comes, note: I contacted you after my prayers to God for Him to direct me to a God fearing and sincere person and I decide to contact you for the fact that I know it is God who direct me to you.
Most importantly, please note: that this transaction is 100% percent risk free hence everything regards to this transaction will be handled with top legality and transparency, in fact, There are practically no risks involved, for the fact that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, it will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer.
Please if you would be able to use these funds for God's work as I stated, kindly get back to me immediately hence any delay to your reply will enable me source for another person. so get back to me immediately after reading this email so that I will give you all the details as I await your urgent reply. Thanks and God bless you for your understanding. With God all things are possible.
Remain blessed in the LordYour sincerely sister and always in Christ,Mrs. Grace Emmanuella.


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