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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: "Mrs. Wenche Wang" <mrswenchewang@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 05:32:50 -0800
Subject: Donation From Mrs. Wenche Wang


From Mrs. Wenche Wang
From China

My Dearest Beloved,

My greetings to you, how are you and your entire ministry? I hope you are
doing well. I received your contact information from a Christian website.
It is true that we are just knowing each other for the first time, but I
strongly believe that God has made it possible through His divine grace.

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 I received Christ, having known the truth; I had no choice than
to do what is right and just in the sight of God and man. 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 MRS. WENCHE WANG. I’m from the People’s Republic of
China. I was married to the late MR. ZHOU WANG who worked with Chinese
Embassy in Canada for nine years before he died in the year 2016. We were
married for Sixteen years without a child. He finally came back to China to
establish an export/import company after his
retirement.

But He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. It was a
painful experience for me. After the death of my late husband, I could no
longer manage the business because of my critical health condition. Before
his death we were both born again Christians and we loved God. After his
death, I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home
which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive, he deposited
the total sum of US$4,600,000.00 (Four Million, Six Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) with the CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK here in China.

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 Eight months due to cancerbproblem. The one
that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition, I
decided to donate this fund to a church, organization like yours that will
utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want a church
or a Christian that will use this fund for orphanages, widows, charity
organizations, NGO anywhere in the World in helping human race and
propagating the word of God and to endeavour that the house of God is
maintained and to promote the gospel. 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”. I
took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this
money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my
husband's efforts to be used by unbelievers and misused, here in China,
they practice Buddhism. This is why I’m taking this decision to donate the
money to you because I know that you are a Christian. 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". I want the
money to be transferred to your account as soon as possible because of my
health condition.

When my late husband deposited the fund, he used my name as the next of
kin. All I have to do is to sign a Power of Attorney in your name as my
co-beneficiary and also instruct the bank to transfer the money to you. I
will send you the “Certificate of Deposit” and the “Lodgement Receipt” that
covers the fund when I hear from you. I will also send you my pictures too.

As soon as I receive your reply, I shall give you more details on how the
money will be transferred to you. I want you to always put me in your
daily prayer. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. I
will send you more information when I receive your response. Let me hear
from you urgently.

Remain blessed.
Mrs. Wenche Wang.
From People’s Republic of China.

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