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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 Alex Brimoh" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <conpensation_agentuk@yahoo.dk>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 09:27:34 -0500
Subject: Dear Beneficiary,Your ATM payment card is ready.

Attn: Beneficiary,

First of all stop contacting any office or agent for funds also make sure
that you change your email address password and dont ever provide it for
anybody again.

I am Mrs Allen Scott , the personal secretary to the FBI Director; Robert
S.Mueller III. After proper investigations, we discovered that your
impending payment that have been withheld by imposters, claiming to be Miss
Mary Lawrence (The New Governor of Barclays Bank in London), None existing
officials of the Barclays Bank of london, UK winning Lottery, Andy Lear of
Hsbc bank, Coca-Cola winning lottery and among a list of others is now
under our custody with the help of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) and the Local Police Force.

Investigations revealed that you have struggled a lot on your personal
earned money just to conclude the successful transfer of your funds to your
nominated bank account by obtaining transfer documents as requested by the
imposters, costing you a lot of money but all to no avail. The FBI had to
send some financial crime investigators from our head quarters in
Washington DC to Europe in other to carry out proper
investigation, after receiving series of other reports similar to yours as
you are not the only person awaiting the legal transfer of funds from
any part of the world.

The FBI has giving authority to the International Monetary Funds (IMF) to
assist the Federal Ministry of Finance and all the organization involved;
such as the Central Bank and Barclays Bank, and Legit lottery organizations
to immediately commence with the compensation of all the beneficiaries
awaiting the successful transfer of their funds. With the help of some of
the best Internet investigators attached to the FBI, we traced your
information from the Internet as one of the beneficiaries awaiting the
successful transfer of funds to your nominated account. I am pleased to
inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to carry out
with the compensation exercise for transparency and most especially to
avoid reoccurrence of the delay in transferring your funds and the high
cost of procuring transfer documents and came to a final conclusion as all
head of organizations involved was duly represented.

It was approved to be issued to you as a valid international ATM card
cashable at any ATM machine designation in the world. The ATM account has
already being credited with One million, United States dollars.
($1 million USD), with a daily Limit of withdrawal of Ten thousand United
States Dollars. ($10,000.00USD).The ATM card has already being packaged
and approved to be delivered to your door step via EPS service.

Contact Mr.Alex Brimoh {Our FBI ATM Rep.} at the ATM PAYMENT CENTER and
reconfirm your delivery information as stated below and your security code
with five digit (24819) number has to be submitted alongside with your
delivery information for security reasons.

DELIVERY INFROMATION:
FULL NAME:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
CELLPHONE NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
NAME: Mr. Alex Brimoh
EMAIL: compensation_agentuk@yahoo.dk

PHONE: +44 703 180 9923


NOTE: Under normal circumstances you are suppose to come and collect your
ATM CARD in person and sign some documents as proof of the collection of
your ATM CARD but the IMF and the Finance Ministry insisted that you pay
for the delivery charges and non residential clearance charges of your ATM CARD for easy passage at the Airport,
which will cost you only the Total of $220.00USD to cut down travel expenses in the receipt of payment of $220USD to the nominated courier company that will carry out with the
delivery to your door step to be documented in your file as proof to your
collection. We hope that is very clear. A receipt to this effect will be
sent to you and a copy kept in your file for future documentation.

We also advise that you stop further communications with any imposters
and forward any correspondence / proposal you receive from them to Mr. Alex
Brimoh in other for the FBI to bring justice to does still at large.

Mrs.Allen Scott.
For: Mr. Robert S.Mueller
FBI DIRECTOR

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