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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: "Federal Bureau Investigation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robertmueller_003@live.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:35:07 +0200
Subject: From The Desk Of Federal Bureau Investigation.(F.B.I)

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: Anti-Terrorist & Monetary Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Address: J. Edgar Hoover Building 93 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001


Attention: Beneficiary

This is to officially inform you we have been delegated by the United Nations that have transferred funds worth 3.5 million Dollars with your name as the beneficiary. They knows that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment from their location to your account and therefore they used what is known as Secret Diplomatic Transit Payment (S.T.D.P) to do this transfer and they are currently awaiting a confirmation from you for final crediting to your account.


Our findings shows that this method of transfer was used in the past to finance terrorist acts, so there is need to correct this problem now to avoid you getting into trouble when the funds reflects in your account. Under the United Nations monetary rules it is our duty as a world wide commission to correct this little problem before this fund will be credited into your personal account. Due to the increased difficulty and security measures set up by the United States for the transfer of funds from foreign banks, the FBI foreign bank commission have stopped the transfer on its way to debit your reserve account and pay you through a secured diplomatic transit account (s.d.t.a) We govern and oversee funds transfer for the World Bank and the rest of the world.

We are delegated from the United Nations office Head Quaters Newyork
to monitor 100 Internet 419 scam victims $3.5million each, you are listed
and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims, get back
to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your
3.5million USD compensations funds.


On this faithful recommendations, UN want's you to know that during
the last UN meeting held at Newyork, it was alarmed so much by the
rest of the world in the meetings on the loss of funds by various
foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the
world today, in order to retain the good image of the countries
involved ,the president of some of the Countries Which includes South
Africa ,Dubai,Ghana and Nigeria, are now paying 100 victims of this
operations $3.5million each, Due to the corrupt and inefficient
banking systems in the involved countries.The United Nations under
funding assistance of the Royal Bank of Scotland would be making the
payments to the beneficiary's.According to the number of applicants at
hand, 84 beneficiaries have been paid, half of the victims are from
the United States and Asia, we still have more 16 left to be paid the
compensations of $3.5million each only.


Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was
arrested in one of the indicated countries as a victim of their
operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this
message to them for any reason whatsoever, the US secret service is
already on trace of the rest of the criminals.



For more vital information,please visit: http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal.


Ensure that you reconfirm the following information to us and send the details to the official in charge of the United Nations Make sure you keep me update once you have contacted the official in charges.

Below is the contact details.

Mr Henry Paulson.
Email- henrypaulson003@gmail.com


Ensure that you reconfirm the following information to him immediately and get back to us with all future correspodence.


Beneficiary's Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zipcode:
Country:
Tel:
Fax:
Occupation:



Signed,


Robert S. Mueller III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA

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