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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 <fedexcourier_deliverycompany4040@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: investigationfbifederalbureau@ymail.com
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:51:24 +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 times 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 April. 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
$258.00 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 2012/05/02 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 ==== Okechukwu Lawrence

Country======= Benin Republic

City====== Cotonou
Text question==== when
Text answer===== today

Amount=====$258usd
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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