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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: PRINCE BORIS <iboris_vansel15@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 11:44:27 +0000
Subject: Remain blessed in the Lord



HRH Prince Boris
From Slovenia.

Dear,

My greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, how are you and
your entire family? I hope you are doing well.

I received your contact information through my search. It is true that we have not met before, but I strongly believe that God has made it possible through his divine grace that you will be the one chosen for this assignment.

Please, I want you to give this message your urgent attention and get back to me so that I can give you more information on this.
It is by the grace of God that we received Christ, having known the truth;

we had no choice than to fulfill our vow we made to God.
I thank God for His Mercies, grace and glory upon my life.
Before I give you more information, let me officially introduce myself to you.

My name is HRH Prince Boris Ivanovski, 74years old man from Republic of Slovenia,I was married to the late MRS. ALICE IVANOVSKI BORIS who died in the year 2006.When We were doing our gold and diamond business in China.

We were married for Sixteen years without a child.I finally came back to
Slovenia to establish an export/ import company after my retirement but unfortunately sickness did not allow me to enjoy the business.
she died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. It was a painful experience for me.

After her death, I could no longer manage the exporting company because of my critical health condition.
When she was alive we were both born again Christians and we loved God, I decided not to remarry or get a child outside our matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late wife was alive,

we deposited the total sum of ($9.5m) nine million five hundred thousand dollars only in my name with Bank.The reason why I'm contacting you is because I want to donate the money to you because of my health condition. Recently,

my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next few months due to cancer problem.The one that disturbs me most is the stroke sickness. Having known my condition,

I decided to donate this fund to a church, organization, or charitable home or people like you that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein.


I want you to use this fund for orphanages, widows, charity organizations, NGO anywhere in the World in helping human race and propagating the word of God You can also use part of it to build hospital, schools and houses to rent out to the poor and homeless people at a cheaper cost.I want you to use the money to glorify the name of God.

The Bible made us to understand that "Blessed is the hand that gives".
We took this decision because we don't have any child that will inherit
this fund and my wife relatives are very wicked I don't want our efforts to be misused, they practice Buddhism.

This is why I'm taking this decision to donate the money to you because I know that you will use it well. I'm not afraid of death hence I know where I'm going.I want you to stand as my next of kin and co-beneficiary to receive the money.I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that "the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace".

We used my name to made the deposit All I have to do is to give you Power of Attorney in your name as my co-beneficiary and also instruct the bank to hand over the fund to you. I will send you the " Deposit slip" Receipt" that covers the fund when I hear from you.
I will also send you my pictures too. I shall always update you, Now all is in your hand.

Remain blessed in the Lord.
Yours in Christ
HRH Prince Boris.
email: iboris_vansel@ymail.com






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