419 scam: "F.B.I AGENT"<get-back-to-me@hotmail.com> GET BACK TO ME AS ITS CONFIDENTIAL

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "charles soludo" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "executive governor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "F.B.I AGENT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <information-officedirect@excite.it>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 03:06:58 -0800
Subject: GET BACK TO ME AS ITS CONFIDENTIAL

Dear friend,

I am Mrs Lynn Patricia Lee, I work for the FBI in Washington Dc. i knew am not to mail you but am doing this because of my present location and all this is because

this issue should be treated with urgency.

On 14th of August 2009, i received an e-mail from someone who claimed to be Professor Charles Soludo the Executive governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, saying that i

have the sum of $19, million to be released to me and i responded.

I have then been paying money's to him ever since , before the new governor took over as the governor of the Central bank of Nigeria by name Dr. Lamido Sanusi.

After paying a lots of money to the hand of this person, i now decided to come over to Nigeria by myself with the permission from the united States of America security

authority.

Getting here to Nigeria, i was able to locate the man who has been pretending to be the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, i got him arrested with the help of the Police

here in Nigeria and the EFCC.

On the arrest, the total sum of $14 million was recovered from him, he stole this money from the Central Bank of Nigeria and this money is said to belong to you as the

rightful owner. He as submitted all your information to me and i need to confirm before i could instruct the central bank of Nigeria to refund it back to you.

Resubmit the information requested and you will get your fund payed back to you.

Once again, below are the required information for reconfirmation.

REQUIREMENT:

FULL NAME:-

ADDRESS:

COUNTRY:

PHONE NUMBER:

AGE :

SEX:

PRESENT OCCUPATION:

i will be awaiting you urgent reply

BEWARE OF HOODLUMS.

Regards
Mrs Lynn Patricia Lee

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