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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 Investigatio <herr317@bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: federalbureauofinvestigation@live.fr
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:44:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)


FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
23/04/2010
 
Attn: Dear Beneficiary.
 
 
This  the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) We are writing in
response to our track light monitoring device which we received today
in our office about the illegal transactions that you have been
involve in for a long time now.
 
We understand from our general investigations that some con men from
West Africa has been ripping you off your hard earned money with the
pretense of dealing with Bank, Courier Company,Loan,Transfer ,Lottery Board.We also got a complain from our German counterpart stating that your identity/information's was used to dupe a German business man to the tune of $400 Billion Usd by some West African Fraudsters which you
have been in contact with for some time now.
 
The German Government has ordered for your urgent arrest regarding the
crimes that was committed with your name,after all the series of
investigations conducted here in our office we tracked your record and
we found out that you have never been jailed or had any fraudulent
case that may jeopardize your image and personality.
 
All this information's are on record and we are going to use it
against you in the world court when this case will be brought before
it and we called the West African High Commission for an urgent
compensation for the bad deed that has been committed with your name.
 
The West African Government has made available the sum of $1 Million
Usd for your compensation and then we would like to inform you to stop
any further communications with the con men so that you will not be
brought before the law.
 
Don't forget that all your properties will be confiscated as soon as
you are jailed because it will be believed that you got them from
fraudulent and dubious business transactions like the one that you are
in right now.
 
We have forwarded a copy of this information's to all the states crime
agencies including,
 
National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
 
CrimTrac Agency, Canberra,
 
Crime and Corruption Commission
 
Crime and Misconduct Commission
 
Home Land Security Service.
 
Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
 
Nigerian Local Metropolitan Police (NLMP)
 
So all you need to do right now in other to clear your name from the
spammer list which has already been forwarded to our office is to
secure the CLEAN BILL CERTIFICATE immediately.
 
This Certificate will then clear your name from the scammers list and
also after the Certificate has been issued to you, you will then
forward it to the payment officer for the urgent transfer of your
compensation funds of $1 Million Usd. don't forget that you will be given only 72hours to
secure the CLEAN BILL CERTIFICATE or you will face the law and its
consequences.
 
Your e-mail address is now under our e-mail track monitor, so you
should make sure that you don't respond to any e-mail that is being
sent to you from anybody or organization that claims to be working for
the West Africa Government.
 
Never you forward any part of our contact with you to the con men and
seize all further communication with any BANK. ATM CARD Company or the people acting for the
release of the funds to you.
 
Forward the information's/documents that was forwarded to you by those
criminals that you have been in contact with for a long time now.
 
Get back to us as soon as you receive this e-mail so that we can guild
you on how to secure the Certificate within 72hours.
 
THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.
 
Thanks as I wait for your response
 
Respectively
Mr John Martins 11
FBI SPECIAL AGENT
 

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