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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: "Federal Bureau Of Investigation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbi.usa7@gala.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:12:05 -0200
Subject: *Alert*

 

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division

601 4th Street NW, Washington, DC 20535

 

Attn: Beneficiary

 

RE: AUTHETICATED LOTTERY WINNINGS

 

This is to officially 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 $850,000.00 US Dollars from a Lottery Organization in the United Kingdom. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the Lottery from an online balloting system and we have authorized this winning to be authentic and paid to you via a Certified Cashier's Check. Normally, it will take up to 15 business days for an International Check to be cahed by your local bank. We have successfully come to an agreement with this organization on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered bank within the United States of America so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $850,000.00 US Dollars has been

 

We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Legitimate, Safe and 100% risk free of scams and frauds of any nature, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited at Chase Manhattan Bank you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the lottery claims agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located at the liaison office of the Lottery Organization in Lagos Nigeria. According to our records, you are required to pay for the following:

 

(1) Deposit Fee's (Fee's paid by the organization for the deposit into Chase Manhattan Bank)

(2) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee (Fee for converting the EFT into a Certified Cashier's Check)

(3) Shipping Fee's (The charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to your nominated destination)

 

The total amount is $200.00 (Two Hundred &United States Dollars &). We have tried our possible best to have the lottery organization deduct the $200.00 from your lottery winning but the funds have already been deposited at Chase Manhattan Bank and cannot be accessed by anyone apart from you the winner. Therefore you will be required to pay the needed funds to your lotto claims Agent in-charge of this transaction. The payment will NOT reflect at the Chase Manhattan Bank with the given transaction code (US8976-003) until you have covered the processing fees needed.

 

In order to proceed with this transaction, Click Here (bola.cole@gala.net) to contact your claims agent Mr. Bola Cole .You may be required to call himfor verbal verification and e-mail himwith the following informations:

 

FULL NAME:

LOCAL ADDRESS (INCLUDING CITY/STATE/ZIPCODE):

AGE/GENDER/OCCUPATION:

CONTACT PHONE NUMBERS (CELL & HOME):

 

You will also be required to request details on how to pay up the required $200.00in order to immediately ship your prize of $850,000.00 USD via Certified Cashier's Check drawn from Chase Manhattan Bank, Also include the following transaction code in order for himto immediately identify this transaction: US8976-003. This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $200.00ONLY to your claims agent via the information in which he shall send to you upon your request, if you do not receive your winning prize of $850,000.00 US Dollars we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3,000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY by you (The Winner).

 

Robert Anderson, Jr.

Special Agent in Charge

 

NOTE: In order to ensure your check gets delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to immediately contact Mr. Bola Cole (bola.cole@gala.net) via contact information provided above and make the required payment of $200.00 to information in which he will provide you.

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