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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.Wray & Nicholas L" <teresastang3210@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mikepompeo@official-adms.com
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 22:11:37 +0100
Subject: Attention and Very Urgent Message:

Headquarters in Washington, D.C.,FBI Director Christoper Wray
Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Attention and Very Urgent Message:

This is to officially inform you it has come to our notice and we have
thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring
Network System you are communicating with wrong officials of the Bank
Claiming to be the CEO HSBC Bank UK,CEO OF Barclays UK, Wells
Fargo,US, PMorga Chase, US,Wells Fargo, US,HSBC Holdings UK,Royal Bank
of Canada Commonwealth Bank Australia, ICBC China, Bank of China, Also
wrong official claiming to be the Secretary General of the United
Nation Antonio Guterres,former FBI Director James B. Comey. During our
Investigation,we noticed that the reason why you have not received
your lottery payments, Contract/Inheritance Payments is because you
have not fulfilled your Financial obligation, Federal Ministry of Finance
on your Behalf and they have brought a solution

The World Bank, FBI and introduced this lottery payment arrangement
to enable our lottery payment, contractors/inheritance beneficiary to
receive their payment without any problems. all delayed
winnings/contract and inheritance, funds will be immediately released
into designated bank account of the beneficiary in your country
without further delay since We're at the middle of the economical year
2021 which is now due to be released since the said fund belonged to
you.

We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences
that this may have caused during our ongoing investigation on the
reason for delay, however we have made contact with the Reserve Bank
Of U.S.A to handle the Final Release of your fund into your
account.The bank of England Director (Mr. Spencer Dale and Dr S.
Bernanke from America Federal Reserve Bank New York) also sounded a
very serious warning and issued the last instructions/order to the
revenue Service Department England to quickly release all funds placed
on hold which is either in
an escrow account or vaults of any bank respectively to the sole
beneficiaries. You now have the lawful right to claim your funds.

All I want you to do is to contact Mr.Mike Pompeo Via his personal
email (m0fficedatafile32@gmail.com )to assist you for their requirements
to proceed and procure your
Fund Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $100 Dollars
only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the
agent who will process your transaction. Since the FBI is involved in
this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk
free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens, UK Citizens,
European Citizens, Asian Citizens.

CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: Mr.Mike Pompeo
EMAIL: mikepompeo@official-adms.com
Email: m0fficedatafile32@gmail.com


Do contact Mr.Mike Pompeo of the ATM Card incharge with your details:

FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:

So your files would be updated after which she will send the payment
information which you'll use in making the payment of $100 Dollars via
Nordstrom Gift Card or Sephora Card for the procurement of your Funds
Approval Slip after which the Delivery of your ATM Master Card will be
affected to your designated home Address without any further delay and
the Bank will transfer your funds in total ($46,000,000.00 USD) Forty
Six Million Dollars to your Bank account.Mr.Mike Pompeo will reply to you
with the secret code (1600 ATM CARD). We advice you get back to
Mr.Mike Pompeo Nordstrom Gift Card or Sephora Card and we do await
your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure
your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to your home address.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.
FBI Director Christoper Wray & Nicholas L. McQuaid
Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices
claiming to be in Possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advised
only to be in contact with Mr.Mike Pompeo of the ATM CARD Center who is the
rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD payment and
forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act

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