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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: John Kelly <johnsonwilliam131@gmail.com>
Reply-To: robertmueller486@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:09:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET.


ROBERT . MUELLER 111
DIRECTOR FBI.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET.
FED GOVERNEMNT OF THE UNITED STATES
Anti-Terrorist and Monitary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C .
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Tel: (917)22018608
warrant no; usa/batch/tzx/washington DC
FBI. inest. Washington

Attn:.

FEDERAL
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.. J... EDGAR. HOOVER BUILDING WASHINGTON D.C
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DU FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP
INTERNET

FBI OFFICIAL NOTICE!!!

This is the final warning
you are going to receive from us do you understand? I hope you
understand how many times this message has been sent to you? We have
warned you so many times and you have decided to ignore our e-mails. Is
it because you believe we have not been instructed to get you arrested?
today if you fail to respond back to us with the payment details below,
then we would first send a letter to the MAYOR of the city where you
reside and direct them to close your bank account until you have been
put to jailed and all your properties will be confiscated by the FBI,
CIA and other enforcement agency. We would also send a letter to the
company/agency that you are working so that they could get you fired
until we are through with our investigations because a suspect is not
suppose to be working for the government or any private organization.

Your
ID which we have in our database have been sent to all the crimes
agencies for them to insert you in their website as an internet
fraudsters and to warn people from having any deals with you. This would
have been solved all this while if you had gotten the CERTIFICATE
SIGNED, ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you where instructed in the e-mail
below. This is the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) am writing in
response to the e-mail you sent to us and am using this medium to inform
you that there is no more time left to waste because you have been
given a mandate. As stated earlier to have the document endorsed, signed
and stamped without failure and you must adhere to these directives to
avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have arrested.

You
failed to comply with our directives/instructions, that was the reason
why we didn't hear from you, as our director has already been notified
about you get the process completed yesterday and right now the WARRANT
OF ARREST has been signed against you and it will be carried out in the
next 24hours as strictly signed by the FBI director. We have
investigated and found out that you didn't have any idea when the
fraudulent deal was committed with your information's/identity and right
now if your ID is placed on our website as a wanted person, I believe
you know that it will be a shame to you and your entire family because
after then it will be announce in all the local channels that you are
wanted by the FBI.

As a good Christian and a Honest man, I
decided to see how i could be of help to you because i would not be
happy to see you end up in jail and all your properties confiscated all
because your information's was used to carry out a fraudulent
transactions, i called the EFCC and they directed me to a private
attorney who could help you get the process done and he stated that he
will endorse, sign and stamp the document at the sum of $55 usd only and
i believe this process is cheaper for you.

You need to do every
possible thing today and tomorrow to get this process done because our
director has called to inform me that the warrant of arrest has been
signed against you and once it has been approved, then the arrest will
be carried out, and from our investigations we learns that you were the
person that forwarded your identity to one impostor/fraudsters in BENIN
REPUBLIC when he had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal
funds into your bank account which is valued at Millions of dollars with
proofs.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give
you till 30/06/2013 (3) Weeks from now so that you could get this
process done because i learnt that you were sent several e-mail without
getting a response from you, Bear it in mind that this is the only way
that i can be able to help you at this moment or you would have to face
the law and its consequences once it has befall on you. You would make
the payment through western union money transfer with the below details.

RECEIVERS NAME: EDU JACK
ADDRESS: BENIN REPUBLIC COTONOU
TEXT QUESTION:IN GOD
ANSWER: WE TRUST
AMOUNT: $55
Senders Full Name======
Sender Full Address:====
MTCN:=========

Send
the payment details to me with the senders name and address, mtcn
number, text question and answer used and the amount sent. Make sure
that you didn't hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today
so that they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped
immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been
carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the transfer
of your compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $2.5Million usd
which was suppose to have been transferred to you all this while.

Note/
all the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and we
shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You are
given a grace today to make the payment for the document after which
your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and finally you
will be appearing in court for act of terrorism, money laundering and
drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try any thing funny
because you are been watched.

Response soonest.
THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.

VICTOR COLLINS BENINUE CONSULATE TO THE FBI
(http://fr.mc293.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=federalbureauofinv
estigation35%40rocketmail.com&lang=en&lang=en&lang=en&lang=enfbiwashingtondc_
robertmueller486@yahoo.com )
J. EDGAR HOOVER FBI BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20535
ROBERT. MUELLER 111
DIRECTOR FBI.
CONFIDENTIALITY
NOTICE: This e-mail message, is for the sole use of the intended
recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information or
otherwise be protected by law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure

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