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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:

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Reply-To: federalbureainvestigation@emailclick.com
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:37:00 -0800 (PST)
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LAW ENFORCEMENT BULLETIN 935 PENNSYLVIANIA AVENUE,
N.W WASHINGTON, DC20535-0001.
VISIT: http://www.fbi.gov/
Email :( federalbureainvestigation@emailclick.com  ) or( federalbureauofinvestigation1@lavache.com )
 


THE LAW MONITORS YOU: 
 
 
We  want to welcome you to this new edition of the  Federal Bureau Of  Investigation (FBI) forum ,our aim is to bring all your attitude of sending the country's currency in an unconditional way back to place, this department has been established in collaboration with the International police(INTERPOL) ,internal revenue service(IRS),U S A authorities as well as other countries of the world to monitor every discrepancy of  the world currency which have been sending out in every moment of the day through this medium to an end.
 
We have also investigated all the transaction you are dealing with and understand that you have been scammed for many years ago now, you are hereby reminded to take note that the world currency is not made for misusing in the hands of the unknown people because we have all our global search light through out the continent to monitor people like you who is much interested  in sending money to the scammers through the western union, money gram, money order, bank account e.t.c.
 
Your contact and particulars have been pasted in our office as well as the number of payment you have made to the outside countries, we will also like to preview some of them as soon as you reply to our email, take note that we have totally decided to go into a full force to search for both the scammers and the people who have refused to stop sending money to them especially you.
 
there are a huge amount of money in the amount of a ($1.2million) one million and two hundred thousand united state dollars in your name which is still under investigation now by our office, we want you to send us all the required document to back up that you are the legitimate owner of this fund, it is a business transaction you claim to have with Benin republic.
 
You are hereby warned to send us the company's name in Benin whom you are transacting with, their address, office registration number, their postal code, name of the director, telephone number and your personal passport.
 
This FBI office will want to investigate to know what is happening to all the monies you have been sending out, if it is legal then we will instruct you on what to do next to recover your lost fund.
 
It will do you more good to send a correspondence of the communications of transaction you have been having with people in Nigerian, Benin republic, Ghana, Togo, and other African countries and outside Africa including Europe, American, Australia, Asia, please remember that if you allow us to expose them , that shows you want to go to jail for a grevial offence because we knows all of them but we want you to list them and the particulars by yourself.

As soon as you do that we will give you a directive because our work is to serve and protect you from the hands of these scammers.

OFFICIAL WARNING: THIS E-MAIL IS NOT  FORWARDABLE TO ANY INDIVIDUAL WITHOUT OUR PRIOR PERMISSION.

 

Robert S. Mueller, III
Director.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
United States Department Of Justice

Washington, D.c. 20535
Telephone: (202) 304-3000

 
BE WARNED OR YOU GO TO JAIL‏
 

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