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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: FBI FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION <emma_raph2@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: fbifederalbureauinvestigation.w@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:15:41 +0100 (BST)
Subject: THIS MESSAGE IS FROM (FBI) FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION YOUR URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED




This is the (f.b.i)

Fbi headquarters in Washington, d.c.

Federal bureau of investigation

J. Edgar Hoover building

935 Pennsylvania avenue,

Nw Washington, d.c. 20535-0001

Federal bureau of investigation (fbi)

 

 

 

Attention, this is the final warning you are going to receive from me do you get me????

 

 

 

 

I hope youre understand how many times this message has been sent to you?.

 

 

 

 

We have warned you
so many time and you have decided to ignore our e-mails or because you
believe we have not been instructed to get you arrested, and today if
you fail to respond back to us with the payment then, we would first
send a letter to the mayor of the city where you reside and direct them
to close your bank account until you have been jailed and all your
properties will be confiscated by the fbi. We would also send a letter
to the company/agency that you are working for so that they could get
you fired until we are through with our investigations because a suspect
is not suppose to be working for the government or any private
organization.

 

 

 

 

Your id which we
have in our database been sent to all the crimes agencies in America for
them to inset you in their website as an internet fraudsters and to
warn people from having any deals with you. This would have been solved
all this while if you had gotten the certificate signed, endorsed and
stamped as you where instructed in the e-mail below. this is the federal
bureau of investigation (fbi) am writing in response to the e-mail you
sent to us and am using this medium to inform you that there is no more
time left to waste because you have been given from the 3rd of January.
As stated earlier to have the document endorsed, signed and stamped
without failure and you must adhere to this directives to avoid you
blaming yourself at last when we must have arrested and jailed you for
life and all your properties confiscated.

 

 

 

You failed to
comply with our directives and that was the reason why we didn't hear
from you on the 3rd as our director has already been notified about you
get the process completed yesterday and right now the warrant of arrest
has been signed against you and it will be carried out in the next
48hours as strictly signed by the fbi director. We have investigated and
found out that you didn't have any idea when the fraudulent deal was
committed with your information's/identity and right now if you id is
placed on our website as a wanted person, i believe you know that it
will be a shame to you and your entire family because after then it will
be announce in all the local channels that you are wanted by the fbi.

 

 

 

As a good
Christian and a honest man, I decided to see how i could be of help to
you because i would not be happy to see you end up in jail and all your
properties confiscated all because your information's was used to carry
out a fraudulent transactions, i called the efcc and they directed me to
a private attorney who could help you get the process done and he
stated that he will endorse, sign and stamp the document at the sum of
$399.00 usd only and i believe this process is cheaper for you. You need to
do everything possible within today and tomorrow to get this process
done because our director has called to inform me that the warrant of
arrest has been signed against you and once it has been approved, then
the arrest will be carried out, and from our investigations we learnt
that you were the person that forwarded your identity to one
impostor/fraudsters in Benin Republic last year when he had a deal with you
about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account which is
valued at the sum of $2.500,000.00 usd.

 

 

 

I pleaded on your
behalf so that this agency could give you the 2011/010/01 so that you
could get this process done because i learnt that you were sent several
e-mail without getting a response from you, please bear it in mind that
this is the only way that i can be able to help you at this moment or
you would have to face the law and its consequences once it has befall
on you. You would make the payment through money gram transfer or
western union money transfer with the below details.

 

 

 

Receiver name ==== Samuel Ozoemene



Country======= Benin Republic



City====== Cotonou

Text question==== when

Text answer===== today



Amount=====$399usd

Senders name======

 

 

Send the payment
details to me which are senders name and address, mtcn number, text
question and answer used and the amount sent. Make sure that you didn't
hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today so that they
could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped immediately
without any further delay. After all this process has been carried out,
then we would have to proceed to the bank for the transfer of your
compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $2,500,000.00 usd
which was suppose to have been transferred to you all this while.

 

 

 

Note/ all the
crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and we shall trace
and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You are given a grace
today to make the payment for the document after which your failure to
do that will attract a maximum arrest and finally you will be appearing
in court for act of terrorism, money laundering and drug trafficking
charges, so be warned not to try any thing funny because you are been
watched.

 

 

 

Thanks as i wait for your response

 

 

Respectively

Agent Ronald T. Hosko.

Federal bureau of investigation (fbi)

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