419 scam: "Philip Selton"<peteramangbo98585@hotmail.com> FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI/FILE45623/JL8

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "fbi washington" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real FBI will not tell you to contact some email address. If you are in any doubt, contact an FBI field office via www.fbi.gov. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- peteramangbo535@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
- of your payment through the e-mail address: peteramangbo535@yahoo.com.hk the details to be forwarded to the bank are: (1)your (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Philip Selton" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <peteramangbo535@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:10:02 +0100
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI/FILE45623/JL8

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
http://www.fbi.gov

Sir,

This is the International Financial Watch Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI Washington) United States of America
and we are mandated to monitor financial transactions around the globe in order to combat financial and internet fraud world
wide. Our monitoring device picked up several signal transactions on your server and since then we have been monitoring all
your financial/internet transactions and we have discovered that you have been into series of transactions.

>From our investigations, you have been involved in a series of transaction worth of millions of dollars. Importantly, we
discovered that you have an outstanding transaction worth US$10,500,000.00 which is either inheritance, lottery or contract
payment which has been approved for payment but is yet to be paid to you.

We are working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Nigerian Government and the United Nations (UN) to ensure that you
receive your payment. We thus, officially inform you that we have verified your contract/Lottery/ inheritance payment file
after close monitoring and found out why you have not received the payment, both on your part and on the part of your debtors.

Our discussion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations (UN) and the Nigerian Government agreed that the US
$10.5M should be paid to you through the use of an Electronic ATM Card System. The ATM card will be processed by the Zenith
Bank Nig. Plc. YOU CAN ALSO CHOSE OTHER PAYMENT METHODS LIKE WIRE TRANSFER and Online payment.

You are to forward the following details to Mr. Peter Amangbo of the Zenith Bank Nig. Plc for immediate processing of your
payment through the e-mail address: peteramangbo535@yahoo.com.hk

The details to be forwarded to the bank are:

(1)Your Full Name:
(2) Address:
(3)City:
(4)State:
(5) Zip code:
(8) Direct Telephone Number:
(9) Age:
(10) Sex
(11) Occupation:
(12)Confidential E-mail address:

We have mandated the Zenith Bank Nig. Plc to process your payment within 48 hours of receiving your details which means that
you must notify us once you contact the bank to enable us follow up with them to ensure that your payment is promptly
processed.

You are to get back to us if you need further clarification and do feel free to inform us of your past effort to claim the
funds and if there has been any monetary involvement from you.

To who and how much did you spend without results as this will enable us to prosecute those involved.

Faithfully Yours,
PHILIP SELTON
Direct E-mail: fbi.roberts@aol.com
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI Washington)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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