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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: Joy moses <joy.moses225@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Joy moses <joymoses71@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:58:26 +0900 (JST)
Subject: MY DONATINON,

MY DONATINON,

Greetings in the name of our lord Jesus Christ, I am Mrs Joy Moses, a
widow to Late Paul David. I am 62 years old, I am now a new Christian
convert, suffering from long time cancer of the breast, from all indication
my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I might
not live up to 4 months, according to my doctor, This is because the cancer
stage has gotten to a very bad stage. My late husband died last five years,
and during the period of our marriage we couldn’t produce any child. My
late husband was very wealthy based in Cote d’Ivoire West Africa during his
time and after his death, I inherited all his business and wealth. The
doctors has advised me that i may not live for more than 3months

I was at that night reading my bible and I came across Proverbs 21:13 If a
man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be
answered, that scripture rocked my world , now i decided to divide the part
of this wealth, to contribute to the development of the church in Africa,
America Asia, and Europe, because this is what GOD expects from us in HIS
church, Is our faith just about going to church, studying the bible, and
avoiding sin?? Or does GOD expect more from HIS church?? I believe HE
expects more from us, I selected you after I prayed over it. Now I am
willing to donate the sum of ($2.3 million dollars USD) to the less
privileged, I honestly pray that this money when in your possession will be
used for the said purpose, because I have come to find out that wealth
acquisition without Christ is vanity. Please your daily prayer's is very
important to me I believe with prayers I must receive my healing miracleas
we are Serving a faithful God Romans 1:17 My Nurse help me to write this
email.

please contact me through this email for more details

Hoping to hearing from you
Remain blessed
Yours Sister in Christ
Mrs Joy Moses

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