419 scam: "Robert S. Mueller Director."<whjjhj1@yahoo.com> Hello Dear

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "diplomatic immunity"
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348098336377 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Robert S. Mueller Director." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <grawd2@fastwebmail.it>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:49:50 +0200
Subject: Hello Dear

Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal bureau of investigation
J. Edgar Hoover building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Ref: FBI/DC/25/11
TEL: 206-339-1817

Hello Dear,

This is an official advice from the FBI foreign remittance/telegraphic dept; it has come to our notice that a bank from Nigeria district has released 10. 5 Million U.S dollars into your account through Federal Reserve Bank, via telegraphic Wire Transfer. The C.B.N bank Nigeria knowing full well that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment from the united kingdom or any other country to your account, used what we know as a secret diplomatic transit payment S.T.D.P to pay this fund through wire transfer.

Secret diplomatic payments are not made unless the funds are related to terrorist activities. Why must your payment be made in secret transfer, if your transaction is legitimate? If you are not a terrorist, then why did you not receive the money directly into your account, this is a pure coded means of payment. Records, which we have had with this method of payment in the past has always been related to terrorist acts. We do not want you to get into trouble as soon as these funds reflect in your account, so it is our duty as a worldwide commission to correct this little problem before this fund will be credited into your personal account.

Base on the above explanations, the said funds has been placed on hold and is now under the custody of the FBI for further verification and proof before releasing the fund to you. Until you can be able to provide us with a Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) within 3 days from the world local bank that authorize the transfer from where the funds was transferred from to certify that the funds that you are about to receive from Nigeria are anti terrorist/drug free or we shall have cause to cross and impound the payment, we shall release the funds immediately we receive this legal documents.

We have done our verification on your FBI Identification Record with Social Security Number, the only document left is the required Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer (DIST) Which should be issued to you from the paying country of the said funds, you are to contact the ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC) Nigeria to obtain the above required document, find below their contact information's:

Contact Person: Mr. Ade Martins.

Email: efcc11@qatar.io

Tel: +234 80 9833 6377

Office Address: 14A Awolowo Lane, Ikoyi Lagos Nigeria.

Furthermore, be advice that according to the United State Law together with the FBI rules and regulations, you are to obtain the document from the EFCC NIGERIA where the fund was transferred from. Also Note that you are to take care of the Document to be issued to you right away, because due to the content of the document and how important and secured the document is, You are to take care of the document by sending to the EFCC NIGERIA the sum of $95.00 Dollars only for the issuing of the document right away and your $10.5 million will be release to you That is the only way the EFCC NIGERIA will issue you the document, because they are going to issue you the Authentic and Original copy of the document for the release of your fund.

SIGNED,
THE FBI CRIME REPORT OFFICE
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J. Edgar. Hoover Building, Washington D.C
Robert S. Mueller Director.

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