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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: Office file <donneville53@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fexchangefminii@outlook.com
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:00:15 +0100
Subject: Attention :Sir/Madam

Federal Bureau of Investigation
United State Department of Justice 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001


Attention:

I acknowledge the receipt of your email below and sincerely
Congratulate you on your $10.5 Million Fund. Kindly be informed that
we recently arrested a group of West African / Ghana, Benin and
Nigerian/ United Arab Emirates Internet scam Artists in London and
Nigeria/ United states. We have investigated and confirmed you are one
of the scammed
victims To those Fraudsters who exploited you of your hard earned money.

These individuals have been pretending in an Angel's cloth wrongfully
informing a lot of people via e-Mail on the internet that they have
huge sums of money to be transferred from a foreign bank account.
Also, they have confessed to loan scams, Love story, money transfer
and the Lottery scam and have been demanding money from innocent
people for purported claims of the said money. They operated with a
fake Bank and courier and a lot of people have fallen victims to them
in the past 3 years.

They were arrested 2 weeks ago and few were also arrested this week
when they attempted to defraud an American citizen of $1.2m USD. FBI/
British Intelligence Unit / UK National Central Bureau of Interpol and
the Interpol working together to break the scam ring. Our
Investigation revealed that you paid out some money to these
individuals over a period of time. We are happy to inform you that you
can now claim your $10.5 Million Compensated fund now scheduled in an
ATM CARD.

We have already initiated proceedings on your behalf with the West
African / Governments and member states / United Arab Emirates law
enforcement agency to ensure that as a genuine scammed victim, you
will not only recover your lost money but also, you are compensated
for the financial and emotional stress you and your family went
through because of their deceit.

Kindly let me know if you can come to claim your funds over here in
our Crimes Unit office, Washington DC U.S.A or will you want it to be
sent to you via courier company to your doorstep: ?
Overcome your fears now and stop worrying unnecessarily now that your
transaction is under my supervision for transparency reason. Make sure
you get back to me with a scanned copy of your International Passport
or Drivers License for proper recognition. This is necessary to avoid
misappropriating your card during delivery due to the amount it
worth's.

I am already in contact with the attorney putting all necessary
document in place as well. As soon as you get back to me with a
scanned copy of your ID, I will surely update you with your ATM CARD
delivery schedule ASAP.
Make sure you forward any email received claiming you have won one
price or the other to me for my investigation before going ahead in
such deal. This is for your own good and security.

You are to make a payment of $475 USD only to our attorney on the payment
Information which I will be providing to you on my next email for
documentation to be intact since its very important and will prevent
you from facing any form of embarrassment from your Government when
you have commenced your daily withdrawals.
I await your positive and timely response for your card to be on
transit without further delays to enable me register your card with
the courier and send you your tracking details if you must join other
beneficiaries whom already have their card at hand and have commenced
their $5,000USD daily withdrawal.

Good Luck and God bless you.
Regards,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United State Department of Justice Washington, DC.
Cyber Investigation Team.
E-mail : cybercrimepol@cyberservices.com

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