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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: "Hon. Christopher A. Wray" <johnaku457@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fbiagent156@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 03:29:07 -0700
Subject: $10.4million USD

We have officially inform you
that we have completed an investigation on an International Payment in
which was issued to you by an International Lottery Company. With the
help of our newly developed technology (International Monitoring
Network System) we discovered that your e-mail address was
automatically selected by an Online Balloting System, this has legally
won you the sum of $10.4million USD from a Lottery Company inside the
United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that
your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we have
authorized this winning to be paid to you via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED
BANK DRAFT.

Normally, it will take up to 5 business days for an INTERNATIONAL
CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT by your local bank. We have successfully notified
this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a
registered bank within the world wide, so as to enable you cash the
check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of
$10.4million USD has been deposited with IMF. We have completed this
investigation and you are hereby approved to receive the winning prize
as we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and 100% risk
free, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited with IMF you
will be required to settle the following bills directly to the IMF
Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Kennedy internal airport
USA. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the
following,

1 Deposit Fee s $ 100 (IMF) INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE
2 delivery Fee's $50 This is the charge for delivery the Cashier's Check to
your home address

The total amount for everything is $ 150 We have tried our possible
best to indicate that this $150 should be deducted from your winning
prize but we found out that the funds have already been deposited with IMF
and cannot be accessed by anyone apart from you the winner, therefore
you will be required to pay the required fee's to the Agent in-charge
of this your transaction In order to proceed with this transaction,
you will be required to contact the Agent in-charge in Untied State
Agent Loveth Andrew via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate
contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: Agent Loveth Andrew

Email: lovethandrew46@gmail.com

You will be required to e-mail her with the following information:
FULL NAME........................
ADDRESS............................
CITY..................................
STATE.....................................
ZIP CODE.....................................
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:............................
OCCUPATION............................................

Plan How to send the required $ 150 in order to immediately deliver
your prize of $10.4million USD via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT
from IMF, also include the following transaction code in order for her
to immediately identify this transaction EAUS

This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $ 150 ONLY to
Agent Loveth Andrew information in which she shall send to you,

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hon. Christopher A. Wray

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