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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: "(FBI) Office Washington, D.C" <barrpolimarssteven@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jmont85268@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 07:42:53 -0800
Subject: HELLO! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!! READ THE MESSAGE BELOW ASAP!!!

--
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.


Attention Beneficiary,

This message is from the FBI office United States, We write to inform
you that your (Inheritance Lottery Awarded Winning funds of
$5.5million) has been totally recovered and converted into a ATM Visa
card and the card is to be delivered to your address via a courier
delivery service like DHL,FedEx or UPS, no PO Box or USPS.
Please be informed that the courier delivery company will be
delivering the card with all the manual accessories both instructions
with the PIN code to access the Card upon receipt.
This method is the best option to receive this funds since it's a huge
amount of money and since every attempt to transfer it through Bank to
Bank wire and Western Union, Money gram, cash delivery all failed in
the past.

Note: There won't be any unforeseen fees except the shipping fee,
therefore you will need to contact the Barrister that helped us in
re-claiming the funds back before converting it on ATM Visa Card, his
contact info listed as follow:

Barrister John Montgomery
Email: jmont85268@gmail.com
Phone: +229 64288188

Ensure to send your current address where you want the Card to be
delivered to him, and remember to indicate the card Registration code
of ATM-00384 to him when making contact with him, also choose the
courier service you would like to deliver the package and endeavor to
inform us once you have received the ATM Card OK.

Sincerely yours,

Christopher Wray
FBI Monitoring Team Service.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar Hoover Building Washington, D.C
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

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