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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. Eddie Moore" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbidpmt@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 18:00:47 -0800
Subject: Important Notification From The FBI

Dear Friend ,

This email is from the Federal Bureau Of Investigation-(FBI).

Don't be surprise receiving this message, because it's all about good news.

Please pay attention to this email, because it is from a right source, and everything we are telling you right now is totally confirmed and genuine, as a matter of fact, everybody is aware of the outgoing Internet Scam, although there are still some legit business you can involve your self into on the Internet, but 65% today is scam why 35% is legit.

As we all knows this days, the easiest way to communicate is through email or telephone, but due to financial crisis and long distance calls, many pupils prefer e-mail to e-mail, and it is this same e-mail to e-mail that the Internet Fraudsters are using to take advantage of other people in the Internet, in the year 2010, we had over 11,965 Internet fraud case files on our desk, and again, in the year 2011, we also had 7,451 Internet fraud case files on our desk from individual, and we are very sure that there are still some other people who are not privilege to report there own scam case to us from over countries.

But ever since we received all this Internet Fraud Case files, we have hold a secret meeting with all the Governmental Agencies, such as FBI, US Homeland Security, IMF, and the Interpol to carry out a proper investigation on all this reported case and make sure we safe the people from the hands of the Internet Spammers.

Listen, your overdue contract/award lottery winning/compensation funds is real, but not as much as those Internet Fraudsters are telling you on there emails to you, in the record files of all overdue funds payment, your overdue funds payment is $6,300,000.00-(Six Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ) only, and all overdue funds payment was issued out from the World Bank Group, and the payment was channel to the CIMB Bank of Malaysia to be release to you, but due to ignorance, so many people never knew where there real funds is up til date, they are just following the Internet Fraudsters up and down, and exhausting there money to them.

Your funds is still with the CIMB Bank of Malaysia, pending to be release to you, but since they haven't heard anything from you, so they have decided to keep your funds inside there Federal Suspend Account pending the time you will come for it. Please be warn, if you have been dealing or making attempt to claim your funds from any organization or bank before, kindly stop it now, because it will lead to spamming of your money, and you will never get your funds in return, we are here to guide and direct you in order to receive your funds easily and put an end to all this Internet Scam Activities.

In order to contact the CIMB Bank of Malaysia for the release of your $6,300,000.00-(Six Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) we are going to send you your funds file number, by you presenting the fund file number to the bank, they will quickly identify your funds files and attend to your funds release immediately. Furnish us with the below information to enable us to give you feedback with the funds file number which you will submit to the paying bank.

Full name:_________
Home address:_______
Cell Telephone Number:_________
Home Telephone Number:_________
Occupation:________

Upon the receipt of the information requested above, we shall give you all the necessary information needed to claim your funds from the CIMB BANK OF MALAYSIA, and please if you have ever involve your self into any claims of funds before which has lead you into loosing of money or your wealth, kindly keep us inform about it, and we shall add it to our Fraud Case Files and investigate on it immediately.

Respond to this e-mail ( fbidpmt@yahoo.cn ) with your details required above.

Thanks for your corporation.

Best Regards,
Mr. Eddie Moore -(FBI AGENT).
The Federal Bureau Of Investigation

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