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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: "Snr. Agent Gerald Rose" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbi-antifraud_consultant112@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 19:41:30 -0700
Subject: Attn; You Are Advised To Read This Important Notice Carefully

US Consulate General
2, Walter Carrington Crescent,
Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
email; fbi-antifraud_consultant112@outlook.com

Attention,

With all due respect, this is to notify you that after hours meeting with our president Barrack Obama, some officials from white house and with some senior agents of our Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)and some agents from United Nations, it was concluded that we the investigators have to take the bull by the horn after receiving so many emails and phone calls from our citizens concerning how they have been scammed and defrauded of their hard earned money, we have decided to trap all this perpetrators and those imposter's and make them pay for their atrocities, by doing so we have sent some of our agents to Nigeria to work with some Nigeria Special Security Agencies (NSSA).

Secondly have you ever asked yourself why your funds are yet to be transferred? Can you calculate the amount you have paid without success? This is because you are not dealing with the right person/person's). However, this office have been legally mandated by the President of the United States, Republic of Nigeria and United Nation Sectary General respectively to investigate and to carry out intervention to your communication with some group of fraudsters here in United State and Nigeria who claims to be top bank officials/director, lawyer, Homeland security officer, reverends, minister of all kinds, with fake promises of paying you, Nevertheless, It has come to the knowledge of this our FBI agents on special duty through our international monitoring unit that you have been in communication with someone that claims to be a top bank official and others that claims to be the Homeland security officer and minister of finance.

We sincerely advise you, for security reasons, and for your benefit to stop with immediate effect further communication with such person's) and cling onto this office of Anti-Crime International Security Council, as that is the only way of getting your funds without any breach of law and as a matter of fact, we urge you to forward all related emails to this office for further investigation, We wish that this letter will create a disorder to your feelings of having to do with such fraudulent syndicates who has misled you and other beneficiaries with all manners of letter heads and fake identifications while they are common criminals.

Presently, your entitlement funds in the sum of $18.5 (Eighteen million Five hundred thousand united states dollars) are laying down in the newly assigned bank to make your transfer, and we shall guide and educate you on how you will get this funds once we receive your email with your information's below to our office.

i. Bank Name: ........................................
ii. Address: ............................................
iii. Account Number: ........................................
iv. Routing Number: ..........................................
v. Swift Number: .............................................
vii. Bank tell phone & fax ....................................
xii. Next of kin.....................................

Beneficiary Personal information

1) Your full name.....................
2) Phone, fax and mobile.........................
3) Address................................................
4) Age and marital status.........................
5) Working I'd/Int'l passport........................................
6)Company name, and position..................................................

Considering the circumstances at hand, you are warned not to accept any email, fax or a telephone call that does not come from this office.
Thanks
yours in service

Snr. Agent Gerald Rose
Special Agent in Charge (FBI)

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