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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: MR JAMES COMEBY <"jammy."@estate.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: MR JAMES COMEBY <mrjamesbcomeby@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 03:22:49 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI. WASHINGTON DC.
ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING.

THIS IS THE FINAL WARNING!!!!!!

This is the final warning to you that you are going receive from me do you get that? 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 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 in you city 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 your city 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 ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you were 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 will be seized and bank account will be confiscated too.

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 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 Federal bureau.

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 can help you get the process done and he ensured that he will endorse and stamp the document with the sum of $500 only and i believe this process is cheaper for you.

You need to do every possible 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 Nigeria and Benin republic when he had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds the sum of ($11,5Millions usd).

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 4/2/2017 so that you could get this process done because i learn that you were sent several e-mail without getting a response from you,b Bear this in mind that this is the only way that i can be of 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 money transfer with the below details.

Receiver's Name;____________________BEN IKE
Country;___________________________Benin Republic
City;______________________________ Cotonou
Text Question;______________________When
Text Answer;_______________________Today
Amount;__________________________$500.USD
Sender's Name____________________?
MTCN___________________________?

Send the payment details to me as stated above and 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 ($11,5Millions 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 anything funny because you are been watched.

Yours Sincerely,
MR.JAMES B COMBY


FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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