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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: "Thomas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rosethomas54@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 17:21:29 -0700
Subject: From Rose!!

Hi Dear,

I want you to give your church at least %5 percent of the fund and another %5 percent
for the motherless home them the other %90 percent is for you and your family.

I am happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from Denmark. Presently I'm in Denmark
for investment projects with my own share of the total sum of the
money. Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist
me in transferring the fund long time ago but by the special grace of God i got a new
partner who helped me to get it done.


Now contact rev Father John Rolaha, his email address is


Email: ( revjohnrolaha@gmail.com )


Ask him to send you a credit card worth of $400.000.00 which I prepared and
kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist
me in this project.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much, so feel free and get in
touch with Father John and instruct him where to send the credit
card to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we
can share the joy after all the suffering at that time.

At the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment Projects
which I have at hand with my new partner.

The credit card is cash-able in any atm machine in your
country and you can withdraw $5000 every day, so feel free to get in touch with rev John.

I want you to give your church at least %5 percent of the money and another %5 percent
for the motherless home them the other %90 percent is for you and your family.


Best regards,

Miss Rose Thomas.

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