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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" <fbidcc113@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fffbigov7@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:37:41 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (USA) FBI NEED PROOF URGENT




Anti-terrorist and monetary crimes division
FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal bureau of investigation
J. Edgar Hoover building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Ref: FBI/DC/25/09


Attention: Fund Beneficiary,


This is an official advice from the FBI foreign remittance/telegraphic
dept. it has come to our notice that bank of Nigeria has released
10,500,000.00 U.S dollars into bank of America in your name as the
beneficiary, by Inheritance means. The bank of Nigeria knowing fully well
that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment from the
united kingdom to youraccount, used what we know as a “secret diplomatic
transit payment” (S.T.D.P) to pay this fund through wire transfer, they
used this means to complete the payment.


They are still waiting for confirmation from you on the already
transferred funds, which were made in direct transfer so that they can do
final crediting to your account. Secret diplomatic payments are not made
unless the funds are related to terrorist activities why must your payment
be made in secret transfer, if your transaction is legitimate, if you are
not a terrorist, then why did you not receive the money directly into your
account? This is a pure coded means of payment which we have had in the
past has always been related to terrorist acts, we do not want you to get
into trouble as soon as these funds reflect in your account, so it is our
duty as a world wide commission to correct this little problem before this
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