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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: Pastor Patrick Roy <"WWW.jjjjjjj."@diary.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Pastor Patrick Roy <mr.patrickroy333@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:03:14 +0900 (JST)
Subject: God bless you

You are bless,

As matter of fact, we need your urgent assistance as an Canadian citizen, there is this man abroad which our Church here in Africa prayed for his wife, for the fruit of womb last year, and GOD with his infinity mercy answered and gave them baby after many years of childless, now the family want to show appreciation on what the Lord has done for them, and decided to send us some money to rebuild our Church here, please our Church will like to use your BANK account to secure the money for the Church project, the family promised to pay the money to us via bank to bank transfer because they are not in position to
send western union or money gram,

Meanwhile, our Church prayed for God's direction before contacting you and if you’re interested, we will take online Oath that you will never for any reason spend your $1 on the transaction, and each money transferred to the account you will take 10% and send the rest to us here immediately for the project.

Waiting to read from you soon as possible,

Senior Pastor Patrick Roy
( mr.patrickroy333@hotmail.com )

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