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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:
- "hundred thousand united state dollars" (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)
- ",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)
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- "we advice you" (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
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.
- james_wade111@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Christopher Wray" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <blessingboa2018@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 13:01:20 -0800
Subject: STOP CONTACTING THOSE INTERNET IMPOSTORS

Hello: Lucky Selected Winner

Our duty is to make sure we stop fraudsters and internet scammers. Last month we have put a lot of fraudsters and internet scammers behind bars. We go all over Africa to pick this internet scam rats, We have over 8,273 of them in our jail around Africa and Europe and we are still looking for more of them everyday we received so much scam report from European and American citizens. We are aware that a lot of foreigners have been deceived mostly Americans and Europe and lost their hard earn money to these fraudsters after promising them percentages in their letters/e-mails for their impending help to move funds out Africa, Europe, Asia and America including fake lottery winning notification and at the end of the day, they will collect thousands of dollars from you without a successful end, and we believe you are still getting in contact with those fraudsters and internet scammers so we advice you to stop communicating with them and forward every email and phone number to our ag
ent.

We have recovered over US$2.3 Billion United State Dollars from the internet fraudsters and scammers we have put behind bars.several Meetings was held on the 1st of JANUARY 2019 to distribute this US$2.3 Billion United State Dollars among the scammed victims we can get in touch with, As a result of this development You have been luckily selected by email as one of the victims of these fraudsters and internet scammers, we the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have come to an agreement that you will be compensated with the sum of US$2,500,000.00 Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars.

You are advice to contact Dr. James Wade, the officer in possession of your fund transfer with your details as stated below:

FULL NAME:
YOUR ADDRESS:
YOUR PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
DRIVER'S LICENSE:

You are to indicate how you want to receive your funds in this available option below:

BANK TO BANK TRANSFER???
ATM CARD DELIVERY???
BANK DRAFT???
CHECK???

Please note that if you wish to receive your funds via any of these options above the delivery fee is just $100 and you are to send the fee to the delivery agent that will be given to you by Dr. James Wade.

Contact Person Information
Dr. James Wade
PAYMENT UNIT DIRECTOR
Email: james_wade111@yahoo.com
Phone Call: +1 (518)-244-8143
Text message only +1 (310)-651-6658

As soon as you get in contact with Dr. James Wade he will treat your case file as urgent and make sure you follow the instructions given to you in other to get your funds with no time.

Making the world a better place!

kind regards,
Mr. Christopher Wray
FBI DIRECTOR
Federal Bureau of Investigation
https://www.fbi.gov/history/directors/christopher-wray

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