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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: "James B. Comey.Jr," <mcam1970@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jamescomeyprivacy03@yahoo.de
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 21:28:18 -0400
Subject: Hello




FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON DC.
JAMES B. COMEY, JR.
FBI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tel: +19804042630


Attention:


RE: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET

Security Interception of Unsolicited Business Transaction.

Sir/Ma

I am James B. Comey, Jr, the new FBI director nominated by President
Barack Obama to replace the previous director Robert S. Mueller due to
internal logical protocols guiding international and local transactions,
my tenure represent peace, equity and justice and rule of law shall
prevail, my duty is to ensure global maximum security and to protect
fundamental human rights.


We the Federal bureau of investigation (FBI) Washington, DC in conjunction
with some other relevant Investigation Agencies here in the United states
of America have been informed through our Global intelligence monitoring
network, that you are presently having a transaction going on with the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)in regards to your over-due contract payment
which was fully endorsed in your favor accordingly. We have taken out time
in screening through this project as
stipulated on our protocols of operation and have finally confirmed that
your contract payment is 100% genuine and hitch free from all facet and of
which you have the lawful right to claim your fund without any
further delay.

To this effect, we will advise that you go ahead in dealing with the
Central Bank office accordingly as we will be monitoring all their
services as well as your correspondence with them at all level. It might
also interest you to know that we recently had a meeting with the
Executive Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, in the person of Mr
Godwin Emefiele along with some of his officials, regarding your case and
they made us to understand that your payment file has been held in abase
for some reasons depending on when you personally come for the claim. They
also complained that the only problem they are facing right now is that
some unscrupulous element are using this project as an avenue to scam
innocent people off their hard earned money by impersonating the Executive
Governor and the Central Bank office.

We were also made to understand that a lady with name Mrs Tracy Lewis from
the state of OHIO, USA. has already contacted the Central Bank office on
your behalf and also presented to them all the necessary documentations
evidencing your claim purported to have been signed personally by you for
the release of your contract fund valued at about US$8,000,000.00 (Eight
million united states dollars).

The Central Bank of Nigeria did the wise thing by insisting on hearing
from you personally before they go ahead on releasing your fund to the
Banking information which was forwarded to them by the above named Lady,
so that was the main reason why they contacted us so as to assist them in
making the investigations to avoid any irregularity. should incase you are
already dealing with anybody or office that might be posing to be the
Central Bank of Nigeria, we advise that you STOP further contact with them
in your best interest and contact the genuine office of the Central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN,)
ONLY with the below information accordingly:

Ensure you provide him with the information below for verification call
the bank on phone:


Contact Person: Mr Godwin Emefiele (Executive Governor, Central Bank of
Nigeria )

OFFICE ADDRESS: Central Bank of Nigeria, Central Business

District,Cadastral Zone, Abuja,

Federal Capital Territory,

Nigeria.

TEL: +2348169371834

Email: govgodwinemefieleprivacy@gmail.com



Here are the listed information of yourself which you have to forward to
the CBN governor on the above stated contact email address.:


Your Full Name:.........

Residential Address:.........

Telephone number:............

Country.......................

NOTE:
You are to contact the genuine office of the Central Bank of Nigeria with
the above information and then request that they attend to you payment
files for subsequent release of your contract fund to you accordingly.
Also be informed that any message that doesn't come from the above
official email address and phone numbers, should be disregarded for
security reasons. After contacting the Central Bank office call them on
phone for more informations, ensure you follow their directives as that
will further hasten up the whole processing as regards to the routing of
your fund to you as designated. We will be monitoring all your dealings
with them as you proceed so you don't have anything to worry about.

All we require from you henceforth is an update to enable us be on track
with you and the Central Bank of Nigeria. Should in case you need any more
information in regards to this notification, feel free to get back to us
so that we can brief you more. Thank you very much for your anticipated
co-operation in advance while we await your urgent response to this
matter.

Yours in service,

BEST REGARDS,

James B. Comey
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA
Tel: +19804042630


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