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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: Barrister <private_ib6@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:51:45 -0800 (PST)
Subject: VERY URGENT


Dearly Beloved in Christ,

Greetings to you in the most Precious Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
I am very happy to write this mail to your Esteemed Concern on behalf of your ministry and all orphans. God is doing great things in your life and that of your familly. Your Love and Care makes a great difference and brings peace to the Life of your familly and ministry you were call for." Now glory be to God! By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope." Eph. 3:20.

Having known the truth, I have no choice than to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God for eternal life and in the sight of man for witness of God's mercy and glory upon my life.

I have the pleasure to share this testimony with you, I am Barrister.Johnny Ross, the Legal
adviser to late Mr. and Mrs. Wande Andrew, an American couple that lived in my Country(London) for 20 years before they died in the plane crash late last year. These couples were good Christians, they so dedicated to God but they had no child till they died, may their souls rest in peace, Amen.

As their legal adviser, before their death,Mr. Wande Andrew, instructed me to write his WILL, because they had no child, they dedicated their wealth to God.

According to the WILL the properties have to be sold and given out to a ministry for the work of God. As their legal adviser, all the documents for the properties were in my care. I decided to fulfill to one of his pastors, but for the sum of $17,100,000.00 (seventeen million One hundred Thousand US Dollars) he kept some where for Ministry work Abroad , after their untimely death, I converted the fund to myself with the intention of investing the fund abroad for my personal use. I was afraid of putting the fund in the Bank, because I have to give account to the bank on how I got the money.

I then packaged the fund in consignments and deposited the consignments with a security company here in my country.

I did not want the management of the Security Company to know the content of the consignments; therefore I registered the content of the consignments as family valuable effect. Now, the security company believes that what I deposited with them was family valuable effect.

After some times, I had encounter with Christ when Pastor Benny Hinn was preaching on television concerning Ananias and Saphira in Acts 5:1-11. After hearing the word of God, I gave my life to Christ and became a born again Christian. As a born again Christian, I started studying my bible and one day, the Lord opened my eyes to Ezekiel 33: 18 and 19 where the word of God says: "When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it. Also from the scripture, I discovered that the only way I can have peace in my life is to do what is lawful and right by giving out the fund as instructed for the work of God by the owner before his death. I have asked God for forgiveness and I believed that God has forgiven me. But I have to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God by giving out the fund to the chosen ministry or
individual, for the purpose of God's woke as instructed by the owner before his death, but after my fasting and fervent prayer over it, I asked God to make his choice and direct me to a honest Christian or the chosen ministry that deserves this fund by his Grace.

I then decided to contact you for the fund to be used wisely for things that will glorify the
name of God.

So if you know that you will use this fund honestly and wisely for things that will glorify God's name, then do contact me back.

I will send to you my contact and international passport for proper identification in my next
mail.

Yours in Christ,

Barrister Johnny Ross (ESQ)



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