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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: "James Morrison A.K.A Hush Puppy" <mshelenclark4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: infooffice543@daum.net
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:32:00 -0700
Subject: Good News And Congratulations

Attention:Sir/Madam/Mr./Mrs.


I am an internet fraudster and scamming people for the past 22
years,I made over $450 million over the years with all kind of
expensive cars, houses and living extremely rich life, I made so much
money from scamming people but now, I realized that nothing good last
forever and no amount of money can buy life, I have been hospitalized
for months on a life supporting machine over lung cancer and my
doctor said I less than 48 hours on this arth. Yesterday my pastor
visited me at the hospital and while he was praying, he told me to
confess my sins and ask for god forgiveness then I confessed to my
pastor on how I used to scam people and how I made over $450 million
from defrauding people through internet then my pastor said that I
need to give all those money and properties away especially to those I
defrauded but unfortunately, most of the people I defrauded are late
now but I have decided to split all those money to everyone found on
my computer contacts.I have listed all the email and names on my
contact list and decided to compensate all the people I found on my
contact list with the sum of $100,000 each and to be honest, 90% of
the people I defrauded was from America so am doing exactly what my
pastor said that I should return all those money back to those I
collected it from before I can seek the face of the lord.

I have selected all the American contact details on my computer and
yours was among them probably, you and I might have had something in
the past but that I cant remember anymore because all that matters to
me now is to payback this money so I can be free to seek the face of
god and for these reason, I have already concluded an arrangement with
my bank (BANK) to pay the sum of $1,00,000 each to any name submitted
by my pastor, the bank can only make payment to only those names
submitted by my pastor as I have handed all the payment transaction to
him as the only one I can trust at the moment knowing that I might
not even be alive in the next 48hours as the doctor said So, I will
advise you to kindly contact my pastor with below details.

NAME : REV PASTOR FRANCIS EZE OF LIVING FAITH CHURCH OF GOD.
EMAIL: ezepastorfrancis@gmail.com

Please you have to contact my pastor immediately for your compensation
of $1,00,000 from me and also find it in your heart to forgive me and
if this is all I have to do for god to have mercy on my soul and
forgive me then am ready and willing to give away all the money and
the properties besides, what is the need of money, luxury cars and
houses when you don’t have a life, its better I return all this money
rather than leaving it at the bank for those corrupts bank managers or
even the government to take over all my assets when am gone so please,
you have to contact my pastor for your $1,00,000 compensation and do
remember to forgive my mistakes as am not sure if I will still be
alive for the next 48 hours just like my doctors said.

James Morrison A.K.A Hush Puppy

Congratulations

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