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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: Samira Paul <K.Kleeboehmer@t-online.de>
Reply-To: "samirapail17@gmail.com" <samirapail17@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:40:50 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: From Mrs Samira Paul.




I am Mrs Samira Paul, 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 Samira Paul.




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