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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: "F.B.I" <robertmullerwastidcinvestigation@consultant.com>
Reply-To: robertmuller9@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:13:24 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: PAYMENT RELEASE INSTRUCTION FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON D.C






 


                      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
                                                                                        
  

                 PAYMENT RELEASE INSTRUCTION FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON
D.C 

Attention
,

We have just received
your email, and it is the pleasure of this office to inform you that the only
thing delaying the release of your funds valued $10.5 million to you, is the
needed Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer Certificate which you are to obtain
from the funds originated country (Nigeria).

You must bear in mind that this is not a child's play
because, you will be charged for money laundering and terrorism if you fail to
prove the legitimacy of the funds you are about to receive, by obtaining the
above mentioned certificate within 48 hours.

As we stated in our first email to you, the needed
document has to be obtained from the funds originated country which is Nigeria,
and from our inquires, the only office that has the privilege to issue out such
document over there in Nigeria, is the office of the chief justice of the
supreme court of Nigeria.

Therefore, you are
advised to contact the chief justice of the supreme court of Nigeria immediately
through his email contact stated below, to enable him direct you on how to
obtain the needed document from his office over there in
Nigeria.

Contact Person: Aloysius Katsina-Alu,
Chief justice
of the supreme court of Nigeria
Address: Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria
Email:chiefjusticeofnigeria1999@lawyer.com


Note: The bank of America will be instructed to
release your funds valued $10.5 million to you, once the needed document is
obtained, and you must understand that it is a punishable offence to disregard
the instructions of the Federal Bureau Of Investigations, therefore you are
advised to contact the office in charge of the document immediately as directed
by this office.

From the
investigations we carried out, we discovered that it will cost you only the sum
of $660 to obtain the needed document from the office in charge of the document
over there in Nigeria, so you are also advised to request for information’s on
how to send the needed fee for the document to them, once you contact
them.

Warning: you have just only 48 hours to obtain the
required document from the supreme court of Nigeria, failure to obtain the
required document within 48 hours, a legal action will be taken against you, by
arresting and detaining you, and if you are found guilty as charged, you will go
to jail.

Quickly contact the office in charge of the document
as we have instructed, and keep this office posted once the needed document is
obtained.

Yours
Faithfully,

Mr. Robert S. Mueller, III
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
CC:
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 
CC: International Monetary Fund
(IMF) 
CC: International Organization of
Securities
Commissions (IOSCO) 
CC:
International Banking Security Association
(IBSA) 
CC: NIGERIA POLICE FORCE
(NPF)

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