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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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Fraud email example:

From: "James B. Comey. Jr" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbiwashington1@yeah.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:25:25 +0100
Subject: officially urgent.

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
 
Attn:
 
FUND BENEFICIARY.
 
We have received a security report from the United Kingdom security unit to handle a case that is related to your winners fund valued US$10,500,000.00 which was abandon in the UK bank by you.
 
A report was lead that your abandon fund was claimed by an unknown person with the help of one of the bank workers, your winners fund was transferred to Africa by the impostors, which we send our delegate to go to Africa to apprehend them, with the information we receive from our delegate today, they have apprehended the people that Stole your winners fund to Africa, they have been handed over to the EFCC OF NIGERIA. And we have ordered the EFCC OF NIGERIA to send them back to the UK, so that we will hand them over to the appropriate authority in UK to bring them to justice, and it has come to our notice that some group of fraudulent people are contacting you, we need your help to apprehend all of them. Because they are a pest to the world at large.
 
If you are not informed, your e-mail address was among the e-mails that won the promo award of UK National Lottery, that is the fund that was transferred to Africa, and it has been recovered. We need your urgent responds so that we will tell you the proper agency to contact for your winners fund that has been recovered. We have decided to contact you directly to ascertain the proper Verifications and proof from you showing that you are the rightful person to receive  this fund, as we want to make sure is a clean and legal money you are about to receive.
 
Supply the below data of yours:
 
Full Names:*
Address 1.: *
Nationality.: * 
Occupation.:  *
Mobile phone No.: *
House Phone No.:  *
Fax No. (IF ANY) *            
 
Be informed that the fund are now in LONDON UK in your name, but right now we have ask the bank not to release the fund to anybody that comes to them, unless we ask them to do so, because we have to carry out our investigations first before releasing the fund to you.
 
Note that the fund is in the BANK right now, but we have ask them not to credit the fund to you yet, because we need a solid proof and verifications from you before releasing the funds. So to this regards you are to re-assure and proof to us that what you are about to receive is a clean money by sending to us  Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer (DIST) in your name to certified to us that the money your about to receive is legitimate and real money.
 
You are to  forward the documents to us immediately if you have it in your possession, if you don't have it let us know so that we will direct and inform you where to  obtain the document and send to us so that we will instruct/mandate the holding BANK IN LONDON to go ahead and crediting your account immediately.
 
Yours Sincerely
 
Sign
 
FBI Director
James B. Comey, Jr.

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