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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. ROBERT MUELLER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.robert.muel_111.fbi.org@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:15:33 +0100
Subject: READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO US FROM F.B.I.

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: Anti-Terrorist & Monetary Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters

Urgent Attention:

OUR CODE OF CONDUCT: >>> “(TRUST GOD==FBI)”

READ VERY CAREFULLY AND FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS AS NOTED;

This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that your fund transfer worth of US$10.5M going on between you and Mr. Ben S Bernanke in Federal Reserve Bank New York has been re-approved today on your favor for immediate release to you base on our conclusion in the meeting held with the board of directors.

Note that the American government President Obama and the federal Government of Nigeria have approved and assigned the immediate payment on your favor today, via ATM CARD PAYMENT DELIVERY without any further delay, so therefore we advice that you furnish us your full delivery information as listed below; following our investigation, we has all your details here in the office but we still urge you to reconfirm your information to us once again for proper verification to know if it is correct with what we have on file to avoid any wrong delivery.

Kindly get back to us today also with the requested information so that we can proceed on this matter as soon as possible and we shall let you know the status of your delivery to confirm your ATM CARD to your door step immediately without any hitch.

1) Your full name.
2) Phone, fax and mobile #.
3) Residential address, position.
4) Profession, age and marital status.
5) Your nearest airport.

Know that we the authority of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shall handle this transaction amicably by our authority and everything is going to work out fine as soon as you can provide the information as required and stick to the instructions given to you regarding the delivery. We shall advice you on whom to contact for the dispatch as we are working towards the approved certificates which we shall forward to you once we hear from you.

Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has been involved with this transaction, you are now to be rest assured that this transaction is legal, legitimate and completely risk-free as it is our duty to protect and Serve beneficiaries and to make sure that you receive your Contract Inheritance Payment Fund.

Please follow the instruction and reply back to this important notice for your interest to facilitate the onward release of your payment.

READ AND FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS AS NOTED AND URGENTLY GET BACK TO US;

We are at your service.

Thank you.

Robert S. Mueller III
FBI Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
J. Edgar Hoover Building
601,4th Street,
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA


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