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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: "Robert Mueller." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <peterspencer@post.ro>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 06:09:35 -0700
Subject: FUND APPROVAL FROM ROBERT MUELLER

Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Attn: Beneficiary.

This is to inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of $950,000.00 USD from the Bank of America Online Balloting System, which was held at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, NC. During our investigation we discovered that your home equity mortgage and your credit card was one of the 8 Lucky credit line in this Year Balloting Program that won the money. Your Winnings is been ready to credit to your credit card or your home equity line of credit bank account at the Bank of America (Bank Address: 1375 N Citrus Ave, Covina, CA 91722) and the Bank have been authorized to pay you via a credit card or equity line drawn from the Bank of America. I wish to congratulate you on your winnings;

(1) Deposit Fee's (Fee's paid to setup a new account for the beneficiary by the Bank of America)
(3) Insurance Fee (This is the fee paid by bank to insure the card before been loading at the bank to avoid any deduction) we will load the money for you to pay your charges of $5,500.00 before finally load it. In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge (Mr. Jack) via e-mail.( loading@usa.com ) Fill any of this information’s bellow and send across to him

EQUITY LINE OF CREDIT BANK ACCOUNT

(1)Are you a property owner in the United States Yes ( ) No ( )?
(2)Do you have an existing equity line of credit with any of the US Banks?
(3)Provide Equity line of Credit account Number: ...................
(4)What is the credit limit on your Equity line of Credit account? USD$.....
(5)What is balance presently owed on your Equity line of Credit? USD$......
(6)What financial institution is your Equity line of Credit with?.....
(7) What is the bank's toll-free number? ........................
(8)Social Security Number:......
(9)Is your equity line of credit still open?
(10)How long have you had your line of credit?
(11)
A. First Name:.....
B. Last Name:......
C. Date of Birth:...
D. Occupation:......
E. Email Add:
F. Property Address:.......
G. City:....State:.......zip code:......
H. Your Tel No:

FOR THE CREDIT CARD, THIS IS THE INFO NEEDED.PLEASE NOT DEBIT PREPAID CARD, WE NEED ONLY CREDIT CARD.

Name {as appeared on card} ............
Address of the Owner ...................
Tel no of the owner ..................
Date of Birth ...................
Social Security Number ..............
C v v no of card .................
Card Number ....................
Card Type ......................
Expiration Date ......................
Limit on Card .......................
Amount owing on card .................
Bank that issued the card .................
Toll free no of issuing bank.................

Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI Director- Robert Mueller, also below is the FBI NSB (National Security).
ONCE AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS.

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