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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: "Patricia Knewl" <knewlpatricia51@yahoo.pt>
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 01:40:43 +0900 (KST)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?77u/Q2FsdmFyeSBHcmVldGluZ3Ms?=

Calvary Greetings,

I greet you in the name of the Lord.

I am Mrs.Patricia Knewl from Canada.I am married to Mr.John Knewl who worked with our Embassy for nine years before he died on the 19th November 2007.We were married for eleven years without a child.He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Ever before his death we were both born again Christians and have sown into many ministries.Since his death I decided not to remarry,but feeling quite lonely if not the Lord who has been my partner and comforter.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $ 5 Million with a Bank here in Togo.Presently this money is still in the custody of the Bank in Togo.Recently,my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next Eight months due to cancer problem.

Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a church,organization or good person that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want a church,organization or good person that will use this funds to help the orphans, widows and other people that need financial assistance. Using part of this money to provide facilities for God's work, taking the gospel to greater height is my major reason of donating this funds out.

The Bible made us to understand that"Blessed is the hand that giveth" l took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and it had been their wish to see my husband dead in order that they might inherit his wealth since we have no son.These people are therefore not worthy of this inheritance.This is why I am taking this decision.

kindly contact me with my private Email (knewl-patricia@outlook.fr ) for more details.

Thank You and God bless you and your family.

Waiting for your respond.

Mrs Patricia Knewl.


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