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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: ROBERTMUELLER <robertmueller65@mail.md>
Reply-To: muellerrobert.robert4@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:58:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.


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FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE,
NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
DATE: 03/04/2010


Attention:FUND
BENEFICIARY,

We received your email  and this is not a child's play. As a
Federal Commission we are here to protect your interest and the interest of all
the United State citizens as well as this great Nation. You have been
investigated as the beneficiary of the said funds that is why you are in touch
with the FBI for a solid proof before the funds will be release to you.
 

The said funds is now in U.S Bank in your name which has been placed on hold
under the custody of the FBI for further verification and proof before releasing
the fund to you.

You do not have this document in your files; if you did
the fund would not have been hold. We did not believe this at first, but when we
saw the transfer we had no option than to contact you.

   We have gone
through your Identification record and also the information received from you,
we have verified a lot of things about you. It has come to the attention of our
Money Trafficking investigation department that " """""" "  has these funds from
Inheritance 'willed ' from C.B.N Bank Nigeria precisely.

With full
concern of The F.B.I and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wish to remind you
of the consequences of remitting such huge sums of money without complying fully
with the provisions of the Financial and Allied Matters Decree 5 as amended in
sub-section C (6) of 2003, which stipulates that any monitory transaction been
done in the United States Of America, must have proper records, which duly
guarantees and covers the transaction as legitimate and legally acquired and not
criminally or terrorist associated funds. This is due to ongoing terrorist
activities/economic crimes on and against the United States of America citizens.


Note that with the information's we have here, the fund in your name
here was release from Federal Republic of Nigeria.  To this regard you are to
contact the EFCC Nigeria where the fund was release from so that they will issue
you the required document because they are the only people that can issue you
the document. Nobody else have the right or privilege to issue you this document
unless the EFCC Nigeria.
 
You are under an observational /Investigation
in connection with money laundering. If your funds comes from a legitimate and
legal source, the proper guidelines for you to recover the right of transaction
is for you to provide the official monitory transaction release document so that
your funds will be legally processed and recorded and accounted for and then
finally released to you.
 
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
(ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONEY LAUNDERING DEPARTMENT) IS HERE to wipe out terrorism,
and will stop at no length in doing our duty for the American people.
 

You have 48 hours to produce legal proof of the below frozen wired
transaction number coded: """"" """"   "AZQV9007 owned by   "" "" """"  " You do
not have any rights to receive these funds if the documented legal wire
information is not complete.

For your own good and benefit, you are
advice not to send your money to anybody accept the below person that will get
the document for you. It have come to our notice that you have been dealing with
scammers regarding the present transaction in your name, with the power imposed
on us as a high Federal Commission, you are hereby warn and instructed to
terminate your involvement with any people or individual contacting you
regarding this present transaction. The said funds is now in our custody in your
name as the beneficiary, your dealings should be channel to this office alone,
if we find out you are still communicating with Imposters you will be charge for
advance fraud communication by the Federal Law.
 
The very heart of FBI
operations lies in our investigations--which serve, as our mission states, 'to
protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence
threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States.' So follow our
instructions properly to avoid any action before you

  We currently have
jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal law. So you
can see that we can track you down through Investigative programs. We have your
address and the evidence and status of your wired funds, so we can arrest you
anytime anywhere.

You don't have the required document in your
possession, these documents are only to be issue to you from the paying country
NIGERIA, to this regards you are advice to contact the EFCC NIGERIA to obtain
the document from them to enable the immediate release of the funds in your
name..

We have done our verification on your FBI Identification Record
with our Social Security Number, the only document left is the required
Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer (DIST) Which should be issue to you from
the paying country of the said funds, you are to contact the ECONOMIC AND
FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC) Nigeria to obtain the above required document,
find below their contact information's:

Contact Person: Dr. Wills
David
Email:efccnng_police111@live.com

efcc.nigeria534@gmail.com


Office Address: 72 western avenue victoria Island Lagos
Nigeria......

Furthermore, be advice that according to the United State
Law together with the FBI rules and regulations, you are to obtain the document
from the EFCC NIGERIA where the fund was transfer from. Also Note that you are
to take care of the Document to be issued to you right away, because due to the
content of the document and how important and secured the document is, you are
to take care of the document by sending to the EFCC NIGERIA the sum of $210
Dollars only for the issuing of the document right away and your $10.5 million
will be release to you that is the only way the EFCC NIGERIA will issue you the
document, because they are going to issue you the Authentic and Original copy of
the document for the release of your fund.

You are here by advice to
Contact them through the email address or call them immediately above to acquire
from them on how you are going to send the fee to them. Note that you are to do
this immediately if you really want your fund to be credited to your personal
account and also if you don't want any action to be fall before you. We have
already informed the EFCC NIGERIA about the present situation, so go ahead and
contact them immediately. Your fund is now on our custody and will not be
release to you unless the required document is confirmed, after that the fund
will be release to you immediately without any delay.

NOTE: We have
asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and up-to date
records possible for no criminal justice purposes.

WARNING: failure to
produce the above requirement in the next 48 hours, legal action will be taken
immediately by arresting and detaining you, justificated and if found guilty,
you will be jailed...... As terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering is
a serious problem in our community today. The F..B.I will not stop at any length
in tracking down and prosecuting any criminal who indulge in this criminal act.
FORWARD THE DOCUMENT TO US VIA EMAIL ATTACHEMENT AS SOON AS YOU OBTAIN
IT.

Faithfully Your's
Robert S.Mueller
FBI Director 






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