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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: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI <fbi.investigation@lion.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "brueau23fbi@outlook.com " <brueau23fbi@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:36:00 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI

FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Washington, DC ...
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI
Address: 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20535, United States
website:www.fbi.gov/contact-us

Attention Please,

This is the final warning you are going to receive from me do you get
me? I hope you 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
details below,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,CIA and other enforcement agency. 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 have 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 a mandate. 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/instruction and that was the
reason why we didn't hear from you, 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 your 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 $210 usd only and i believe this process is
cheaper for you.

You need to do every possible thing 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 learn that you were the person that forwarded your
identity to one impostor/fraudsters in Benin Republic 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 $1.500,000.00 usd.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till
13/7/2015 so that you could get this process done because i learn that
you were sent several e-mail without getting a response from you, Bear
it in mind that this is the only way that i can be able to help you at
once it has befall on you. You would make the payment through western
union money transfer with the below details.

RECEIVER'S NAME: CHIME NNAM
Country ...Benin Republic
City ....Cotonou
TEXT QUESTION: God
Answer::::: Good
Senders Full Name:
MTCN: NUMBER...
Amount:210

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
$1.500,000.00 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.

FBI DIRECTOR,
MR. JAMES B. COMEY JR,
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON DC 20535

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