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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. Thomas Haley" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrthomashaley71@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:01:42 +0100
Subject: THIS IS THE (F.B.I)

THIS IS THE (F.B.I)
http://www.fbi.gov/
Sir. James Comey
Executive Director "FBI"
And former Deputy Attorney General
 
 
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington,
D.C. 20535-0001, USA
Attn: Beneficiary,
This is to officially inform you that prior to the fact that the office(s) and person(s) handling modalities about your Approved fund release has negatively been working against you the legitimate beneficiary in order to hack and divert it to another account for their best interest, to avoid this dubious act from taking place and for security reasons we decided to move your inheritance approved funds to a correspondence offshore bank in Australia (ANZ Bank), them as the main International Apex bank in Australia now has the largest bank by market capitalization in Australia and have been granted the full authority and the functional telegraphic machines to see your fund overdue fund transfer hit your nominated bank account without any further delay or breach of law.
Well, I don’t know your stand towards receiving your fund if you have given up because of the way you have been treated so far by the wrong officials, but I tell you this that as soon as you sign the (Fund Notarization/Release Order Documents) as issued by the authorities in Nigeria, your fund will be released to you immediately because that is the only classified documents that will empower the ANZ Bank of Australia to release your fund to you as the Fund Bank Origin, United Nation and the World Bank auditors on foreign debts settlement, and until you receive the Fund Release Order Documents at your door step and sign it to empower the paying bank to do their job perfectly, you are not going to receive your fund. This is the simple truth as revealed by the Minister of Finance and the World Bank auditors on foreign debts settlement. To this effect, I urge you to listen to me and abide by the instruction given to you by the paying bank in order to help them be on their best service seeing that your overdue
Finally, the office of the Presidency, the Honorable Minister of Finance and other concerned rightful offices in charge has handed over the legal approval documents to the ANZ Bank of Australia with permission to release your inheritance fund to you as fast as possible, and until you sign those documents, you are not going to receive your fund no matter how hard you try, and this is the Top Secret why you have not been able to receive your fund yet. We initially asked the ANZ Bank of Australia to pay you via ATM Swift Card but later withdrew the arrangement, the reason is because we would not want your ATM Card fund Encounter any delay or Difficulty in delivery more especially Stop Order by any authority like IMF or the IRS that is why we came to the conclusion of releasing your due via BANK TO BANK transfer as it is easier and faster and would take just 24hrs to be completed.
We hereby advice you to reconfirm to us the below details of yours and also your bank account where you wish your fund to be credited into because as it now your approved fund (Fifteen Million United State Dollars) is ready to be transferred into your stipulated account.
1. Your Full names:
2. Your full address:
3. Your Direct Mobile/telephone:
4. Age:
5. Sex and Marital Statues:
6. Your occupation:
7. Banking/Account Details (Where You want Us to Transfer Your Fund Into)
8. Your valid passport for identification
As soon as the above information has been provided by you, Kindly find the below authorized paying bank (ANZ Bank of Australia) and the rightful person to pay you, contact him so that he can verify and make immediate records as we have already tendered your payment file to his for authentication, he will commence further with all necessary procedures in other to remit your inheritance fund into your stipulated bank account. The United Nation, Executive board of directors and the World Bank auditors on overdue foreign debts settlement have approved and accredited the ANZ Bank of Australia (International Apex bank) with the office of the director, International remittance/foreign operations, to handle and transfer all foreign inheritance funds for this payment of the fiscal year 2016.
Mr. Thomas Haley
Managing Director
KTT/Funds Transfer Unit
ANZ Bank of Australia
Direct Email: mrthomashaley71@gmail.com
Note: You are only required to pay only $150 which is for the Registration and endorsement of this (Fund Notarization/Fund Release Order Warranty) that is to be delivered to doorstep for to enhance and back up the effective transfer of your overdue fund in no time. All process will follow immediately.
However, the above mentioned office shall be forced to confiscate and keep dormant every modalities guiding your fund release if he does not hear from you within the next three working days from today.
All we require from you henceforth is an update so as to enable us be on track with you and the ANZ Bank of Australia. Without wasting much time, we want you to contact them immediately with the above email address so as to enable them attend to your case accordingly without any further delay as there is limit of validity on this transaction and further delay might make you lose this transaction as the rightful Beneficiary.
 
 
Should in case you need any more information's in regards to this Notification, be free to get back to us so that we can brief you more as we are here to guide you during and after this project has been completely perfected And you have received your contract fund as stated.
 
 
Thank you very much for your co-operation in advance as we earnestly await your urgent response to this matter and you can always call our office for further information.
 
 
Regards,
 
 
Sir. James Comey
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington,
D.C. 20535-0001, USA
 

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