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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: Federal Bureau of Investigation <carol121642@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: fbi_office_investic@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 02:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Attention: FBI Cyber Crime Division



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Assistant Director in Charge

Joseph Persichini, Jr
                                                             
Federal Bureau of
Investigation
 

                                        

                                                
Federal Bureau of
Investigation
                               Counter-terrorism
Division and Cyber Crime
Division
                              J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC


 
 
To your
Attention: 
 
Records show that you are among one of
the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue
payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling,
Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed
that over the past you have been transacting with some imposters and fraudsters
who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of
Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of
Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and
some imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
 
The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI
gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint
Center (IFCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint
Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these
imposters. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with
any one not referred to you by us.
 
We have negotiated with the Federal
Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $9,800,000.00 will
be released to you via a custom pin based ATM
card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $10,000 a day which is
powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world were you see a Visa
Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine
(ATM). We have advised that this should be the only way at which you are to
receive your payment because it’s more guaranteed, since over $5 billion was
lost on fake cheque last year 2009.
 
We guarantee 100% receipt of your
payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your
$9.8 million United States Dollars to be 100% risk free and
free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect citizens of the United States
of America. (This is as a result of the mandate from US Government  to make sure
all debts owed to citizens of American which includes Inheritance, Contract,
Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current economic
status of the nation and its citizens as he has always believed “Our Time for Change has come” because “Change can
happen”).
 
Below are few list of tracking numbers
you can track from FedEx website to confirm people like you who have received
their payment successfully.

Name : Donny Peterson: FedEx Tracking
Number: 870456747216
(www.fedex.com/Tracking?cntry_code=us)
Name : Angela L. Johnson: FedEx
Tracking Number: 870456750392
(www.fedex.com/Tracking?cntry_code=us)
 
To redeem your fund you are hereby
advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for
their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and
Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $265.00
only nothing more and no hidden fees as everything else has been taken cared of
by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so
all you will ever need to pay is $265.00 only.
 
Contact Information
Name: Dr.
James White,
Email: drjameswhite@live.com
Phone:
+2347033409204
Do contact Dr. James White of the ATM
Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as
listed below:
 
 
Your full Name:
Your Address (where
you will like your ATM CARD to be sent to):
Home/Cell
Phone:
Occupation:
Age:
 
On contacting him with your details your
files would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in
which you will use in making payment of $265.00 via Western Union
Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment
Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order. After which the delivery of
your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any
further delay, extra fee or any authority raising eyebrow.
 
Upon receipt of payment the delivery
officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because
we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if
you do not receive your ATM CARD Shippment Confirmation
within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for
shipping.
 
Once again we are so sure of you
receiving your payment at no any other cost as we have taking it upon our duty
to monitor everything in other to cub cyber
crime that is perpetrated by those
impostors.
 
Thanks and hope to read from you
soon.

ROBERT
S. MUELLER,
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
20535
TELEPHONE: 206-666-5283
FAX:
206-666-5283
 



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