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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 Christopher Asher Wray." <jerryphilip85@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fbiheadoffice4@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:35:06 +0100
Subject: Attention: Dear,

Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division FBI Headquarters In
Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
FBI-Washington Field Office 601 Street, NW Washington, DC 20535
Website: www.fbi.gov Email (fbiheadoffice4@gmail.com )

Attention: Dear,

Am writing to make you understand that i'm the FBI Director
Christopher Asher Wray i have been informed about your refusal to
comply with the directives from the FBI and we are going ahead with
the arrest by today and tomorrow.We monitored your contact with this
co-men through our global tracking device that detect all the incoming
and outgoing emails and tele phone calls globally from all the
countries of the world, We have your e-mail address under our
monitoring device set-up any more e-mails to the fraudsters from you
will be automatically detected.Our concern in this issue is for your
name to be cleared from the scammers list which has already been
submitted to all the crimes agencies in Nigeria, Germany,Canada
,London and United States Of America, We make sure that the laws are
followed to the core and this is why the Benin Government which its
citizen carried out the
fraudulent activities with your information's which you sent to them
have to compensate you with the amount as regards the
FBI Laws of Sub-Section 05/16 Of the United Nations Anti-crimes
laws.We have in our file your details which you sent to them and we
have checked and found out that you are a honest and hard working
person and by this regards we decided to persuade the Benin Government
to compensate you for the evil deeds that was carried out with your
name.The German man knows that you are the person because he was duped
with your identity and this fraudulent activities was carried out by
the same people who you have been forwarding your
information's/details to all this while with the pretense of dealing
with the right offices in Africa and other countries of the world.You
will have to get the CLEARANCE FORM from the office of the High Court
of Justice in West Africa Nigeria at the sum of $350 Usd. This
certificate will enable you to get access to the compensation funds of
$10.5,Million Usd which was offered to
you by the Benin Republic Government and don't forget that you need to
get the document within 3days from now as you already know the
deadline given to you to secure
the document.If not for the fact that we checked your data before
acting towards this directives given to us, you would have been
arrested
by now and jailed because of your association with criminals in the
internet and don't forget our warnings to you.The German business man
who was duped with your identity has reported this case to the world
court and it will involve the
Government of both countries which are Germany and Yours and that is
the reason why you must get this document immediately so as to avoid
anybody calling your name as being among the fraudsters.With the
Certificate, you are free from any form of crimes as your data shows
that you are a honest and respectable person in
the society, You will have to send the fees to the High Court of
Justice over there in Nigeria within 3days from now so that our local
agent can be able to apply our modalities with the High Court of
Justice to issue the CLEARANCE FORM to you.

Send the fees of $350 through bank to bank Transfer with the name of
the account officer in High Court of Justice.

Bank name......Wells Fargo
Account name....Sandra D Sterling
Account number.....9342940369
Routing number.....111900659?
International wire transfer # ?121000248?
Swift code.......WFBIUS6S

Bank address.....Wells Fargo
435 S MAIN
LUMBERTON, TX, 77657
Beneficiary account address..... 505 Hickory Hill Drive
Lufkin, TX 75901

As soon as you send the fees, you will have to get back to us with the
following details which are Senders Name and Address,

MTCN Number, and the amount Sent.

Then,when all this requirements are in place, the Certificate will be
issued to you and then the compensation funds of $10,5Million Usd will
be transferred into your bank account immediately.To avoid the wrath
of the law on you and your entire family, we have been pleased to
allow you secure the document from the
High Court of Justice Benin Republic so that your name will be
cleared off the fraudulent list in Benin Republic and we also argued
with the Benin Republic Government about your compensations and that
was the reason why you were compensated with the sum of $10.5million
usd

Thanks as I wait for your response

Respectively
FBI Director Christopher Asher Wray



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