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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: "Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ferdinand@fbi-agents.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 02:18:52 -0600
Subject: Track of Your Payment Recieved

I am Samuel Murphy, secretary to the FBI Director; Robert S. Mueller III. After proper investigations, we discovered that your impending payment that have been withheld by Banks in United Kingdom and Nigeria from Winning Lottery, Inheritance Payment, Government Contract Awards, Courier Agencies and as investigations revealed that you have some difficulties with Government entities and other monitoring bodies in getting your payment across to you and misinformation from their respective agents.

With the help of some of the best Internet investigators attached to the FBI, we were able to track your information as one of the beneficiaries awaiting the payment into your nominated account and I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held regarding the best way to carry out the payment exercise for transparency and most especially to avoid re-occurrence of the delay in transferring your funds and the high cost of procuring transfer documents from all necessary bodies involve, an agreement has been reached that your payment should be made through a valid ATM card usable anywhere you are in the world.

The ATM account has already being credited with Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($800,000,00USD) with a daily Limit of withdrawal of Twenty Thousand United States Dollars ($20,000). The ATM card has already being packaged and approved to be delivered to your door step through a swift courier delivery service.

You are to contact our agent Mr. Ferdinand Anthony immediately and acquaint him with the following information as stated below;

Full Name:
Home Address:
Telephone Number:

FBI Agent Contact Information
Name: Mr. Ferdinand Anthony
Phone: +2347088278955
E-Mail: ferdinand@fbi-agents.com


Important Notification: You are suppose to show up in Nigeria for the collection of your ATM Card in person and sign some documents as proof of the collection of your ATM Card but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) insisted that you pay for the activation and delivery fee of your ATM Card Via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram, which will cost you only $250USD to cut down traveling. It is very important that you send the $250 to Mr. Ferdinand so as to enable him activate your ATM Card and have dispatch immediately.

We also advise that you stop further communications with imposters and forward any correspondence to the FBI so as to enable us bring them to book.

For: Mr. Robert S. Mueller III
FBI DIRECTOR

This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.

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