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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 A Wray" <drscottwilliams111@gmail.com>
Reply-To: info@imfoffice999.onexmail.com
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 00:32:54 +0100
Subject: Your Payment

Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001


ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY

This e-mail has been issued to you in order to 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 $7.4 million USD from a Lottery Company outside the
United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that
your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we
havebauthorized 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 to cash the
check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of
$7.4 million 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 Lottery
Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Abuja Nigeria.
According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the
following,

(1) Deposit Fee's ( IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE )
(2) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's
Check to your home address)

The total amount for everything is $250.00 We have tried our possible
best to indicate that this $250.00 should be deducted from your
winning prize but we found out that the funds have already been
deposited to 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 transaction In order to proceed with this
transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge
(Mr.Mark Ben) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate

contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr. Mark Ben

E-MAIL== info@imfoffice999.onexmail.com

TELEPHONE +234-9165-779-438

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

You will also be required to request Western Union or MoneyGram
details on how to send the required $250.00 in order to immediately
ship your prize of $7.4 million USD via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK
DRAFT from IMF, also include the following transaction code in order
for him to immediately identify this transaction : EA2948-710. This
letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is
authorizing you to pay the required $250.00 ONLY to Mr. Mark Ben via
information in which he shall send to you,

Christopher A Wray
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
Yours in Service,Photograph of Director
Christopher Wray,vii1 Director Office of Public
Affairs Welcome once more to FBI

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