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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" <fb003@w151zg96a.homepage.t-online.de>
Reply-To: <fbi.terrodept@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:59:10 +0200
Subject: PROCUREMENT OF PAYMENT

Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crimes Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J. Edgar. Hoover Building, Washington D.C
 
 
ATTN: BENEFICIARY,
 
This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice as we had thoroughly completed an Investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System, which report confirmation stated that there are illegal transactions with you and some Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, others are officials in Banks such as Oceanic Bank, Zenith Bank,Citibank, Barclays with other banks listed in our report, while some impostors claimed to be Federal Bureau Of Investigation Agents, and E.F.C.C Agent and ICPC Agent. Meanwhile, during our Investigation FBI realized the reason why you have not received your payment because you are been deceived by these imposters.
 
Moreover, we notice that you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment. Based on that FBI has contacted the Federal Ministry of Finance FMF on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in the total amount of $8,300,000.00 USD which has been programmed and authorized to be paid out by ABBEY BANK INTL LONDON ENGLAND due to the fact that Africa could not handle the payment based on their corruption and untrust worthiness.
 
With the Federal Bureau of Investigation involvement in this transaction, you are now be rest assured that this transaction is legitimate and completely risk-free, our duty is to Protect and Serve citizens of United States and other part of the world. Now I advise you to contact the ABBEY BANK Telex department headed by Mr. Richard Lawson via E-mail for instructions on how to procure your Approval Slip;
 
ABBEY BANK Telex Dept.
NAME: MR RICHARD LAWSON
OFFICE-LINE: +44-7024084969
EMAIL: abbeyintl.bank@mail.mn
Contact Mr. Richard Lawson of the ABBEY BANK INT'L LONDON UK with your information as follows:
 
Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zipcode:
Country:
Direct Phone / Mobile Number:
Current Occupation:
 
Once you have sent the required information to Mr. Richard Lawson he will contact you with instructions on how to make the payment of $720USD for the Approval Slip after which he will proceed towards the transfer of your fund without any further delay. You are hereby been authorized/guaranteed by the Federal Bureau Of Investigation to commence towards completing this transaction, as there shall be NO delay once payment for the Approval Slip has been made to the authorized agent.
 
Once you have completed payment of $720USD to the agent in charge of this transaction, immediately contact us back for more investigation for conformation of your transfer. The both offices are working 24hours to get this project complete.
 
 
Regard,
 
Yours faithfully,
Robert Mueller III,
FBI, Director.
 

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