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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: FBI DIRECTOR <dhlexpressinterchicago@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <federalbureauofivesttigationfbi@ozchat.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:02:12 +0100
Subject: Federal Bureau Of Investigation


Anti-Terrorist
and
Monetary Crimes
DivisionFbi Headquarters
In Washington, D.C.Federal


Bureau Of
InvestigationJ. Edgar
Hoover Building935
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001 Attention:
Beneficiary
This is the final warning you
are going to receive from me do you get me? 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 or because you believe
we have not been instructed to get you arrested and 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 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 for 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 in America for them
to inset 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 ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you
were 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 this directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last
when we must have arrested and jailed you for life and all your
properties will be seized and bank account will be confiscated too.You failed to
comply with our
directives/instruction and 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 48hours 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 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 can help you get the process done and he stated
that he will endorse and stamp the document at the sum of $108 usd only
and i believe this process is cheaper for you.You need to do
every possible
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 learn that you were the person that
forwarded your identity to one impostor/fraudsters in Nigeria when he
had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your
bank account which is valued at the sum of $10,500,000.00 only. I pleaded on
your behalf so
that this agency could give you till 4/29/2014 so that you could get
this process done because i learn 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. NAME: MIKE SODIQ
ADDRESS:


LAGOS, NIGERIATEXT QUESTION: BETTERANSWER: BESTAMOUNT:


$108 USDSenders Full
Name======Sender Full
Address:====Direct Phone
Number:==================MTCN:========= Send the
payment details to me
as
stated above and 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 $10.500,000.00 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. EXPECTING YOUR KIND
ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION. JAMES B.COMEY
FBI DIRECTOR

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