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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: MR David JOE <"www."@juno.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: MR David JOE <fbi.officeauthority.dtp@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:23:09 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTENTION EMAIL OWNER!!!

ATTENTION EMAIL OWNER!!!

Fraud Department Agent James Williams and Desmond. Mueller Iii
Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division Fbi Headquarters In
Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau Of Investigation.

FBI-Washington Field Office 601 Street, NW Washington, DC 20535
Website: WWW.FBI.gov
Welcome to FBI.gov
WWW.FBI.gov

FBI Homepage with links to news, services, stories and information of
interest to the public.

Am writing to make you understand that this is AGENT David Joe
representing the office of the FBI Director and our fraud department
in which i head has been informed about your refusal to comply with
the directives from the FBI and we are going ahead with the arrest by
today and tomorrow. We monitored your contact with this con men
through our global tracking device that detect all the incoming and
outgoing e-mails and telephone calls globally from all the countries
of the world.... We have your e-mail address under our monitoring
device set-up any more e-mails to the fraudsters from you will be
automatically detected.....Our concern in this issue is for your name
to be cleared from the scammers list which has already been submitted
to all the crimes agencies in Benin, Germany and United States Of
America. We make sure that the laws are followed to the core and this
is why the Benin Government which its citizen carried out the
fraudulent activities with your information's which you sent to them
have to compensate you with the amount as regards the FBI Laws of
Sub-Section 12/13 Of the United States Anti-crimes laws.

We have in our file your details which you sent to them and we have
checked and found out that you are a honest and hard working person
and by this regards we decided to persuade the Benin Government to
compensate you for the evil deeds that was carried out with your
name.The German man knows that you are the person because he was duped
with your identity and this fraudulent activities was carried out by
the same people who you have been forwarding your
information's/details to all this while with the pretense of dealing
with the right offices in Africa
and other countries of the word

You will have to get the CLEARANCE from the office of the High Court
of Justice in Benin at the sum of $167Usd.( Dollars Only) This
certificate will enable you to get access to the compensation funds of
$5.5Million Usd which was offered to you by the Benin Government and
don't forget that you need to get the document within 2 days from now
as you already know the deadline given to you to secure the
documents.If not for the fact that we checked your data before acting
towards this directives given to us, you would have been arrested by
now and jailed because of your association with criminals in the
internet and don't forget our warnings to you.You will have to forward
your bank account details to us where you want the $5.5Million Usd to
be transferred into as soon as you secure the CLEARANCE FORM.

The German business man who was duped with your identity has reported
this case to the world court and it will involve the Government of
both countries which are Germany and USA and that is the reason why
you must get this document immediately so as to avoid anybody calling
your name as being among the fraudsters. With the Certificate, you are
free from any form of crimes as your data shows that you are a honest
and respectable person in the society. You will have to send the fees
to the High Court of Justice over there in Benin within 2days from now
so that our local agent can be able to apply our modalities with the
High Court of Justice to issue the CLEARANCE FORM to you.Send the fees
of $167Usd Usd through Western Union Money Transfer with the name of
the account officer in High Court of Justice.

Receivers Name:JOE ANI
Country: Benin Republic
City: Cotonou
Amount: $167Usd.

As soon as you send the fees, you will have to get back to us with the
following details which are Senders Name and Address, MTCN Number,
Text Question and Answer Used and the amount Sent.
As soon as all this requirements are in place, the Certificate will be
issued to you
u and then the compensation funds of $5.5Million Usd will be
transferred into your bank account.

To avoid the riot of the law on you and your entire family, we have
been pleased to allow you secure the document from the High Court of
Justice so that your name could be cleared off the fraudulent list and
we also argued with the Benin Republic Government about your
compensations and that was the reason why you were compensated with
the sum of $5.5,000,000 Usd.

Thanks as I wait for your response
Respectively
AGENT James Williams
FBI SPECIAL AGENT
FBI Director
MR David JOE
Email:fbi.officeauthority.dtp@gmail.com

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