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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: "Paul A. Schneider" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <us.depthomelandsecurity@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:15:20 -0700
Subject: UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET.

The MOTTO of ICE is "INTEGRITY, COURAGE, and EXCELLENCE"
100 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland 21401-1925.
United States of America.
E.mail|:us.depthomelandsecurity@hotmail.com


UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET.

Good Day,

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY SEAL OF TRANSFER FOR FINAL FUND RELEASE.

We received your email and you must take note that this is for real because we

are ready to take you to any length if you failed to proof the legitimate of

the fund you are about to receive. 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, we further held a meeting with the United nation in

person of the President Musa Yaradua, where they finally concluded that they

every of our American citizen should stop every upfront payment because your so

called partner will keep asking more money after money, and fund will not be

released to you.

They finally concluded that every American citizen must posses a Vital

Classified Document called Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer that overrule

every upfront payment fee and certificates,You do not have this document in

your files, if you did the fund would not have been put on-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 informations

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 you have

some funds valued at U.S $ 10.5 Million to your name, The said payment is

awaiting adjudication and crediting to you, this funds are 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: 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 code: AZQV9007 owned by you.

Note that you do not have any rights to receive these funds if the documented

legal wire information is not completed. For your own good and benefit, you are

advice not to send your money to anybody except the below person that will get

the document for you.

It has come to our notice that you have been dealing with some set of scammers

regarding the present transaction in your name, with the power imposed on us as

a high Federal Commission, you are hereby warn and instruction 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 Imposter's 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. pay any fee to them, they will ask for

more 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, so contact them with required fee mtcn in reciept

of this message, because the document is very mandatory.

You don't have the required document on your possession, these document are

only to be issue to you from the paying country NIGERIA, to this regards you

are advice to contact the E FCC NIGERIA to obtain the document from them to

enable the immediate release of the funds in your name without entertaining any

interogation and avoid any further delay .

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: Mrs Farida Waziri
Email:scamalart_efcc@hotmail.com
Tel:001234-70-29915090

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 advised to take

care of the document by requesting for the payment information and sending to

the EFCC NIGERIA the sum of $750 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 relasement of your

fund.

You are here by advice to Contact them through the email address 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 becredited 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 proper authority and may be disatrous to anyone

who fail to have the said doument,while transfer,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.

CC: Canadian Police Association
CC: GENERAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (GID)
CC: Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG)
CC: Egmont Group CC: FEDERAL BURUEA OF INVESTIGATION (FBI USA)
CC: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
CC: Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
CC: International Monetary Fund (IMF)
CC: International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)
CC: International Banking Security Association (IBSA)
CC: International Air Transport Association (IATA)
CC: Institute de Formation Interbancaire (INSIG)
CC: World Customs Organization (WCO)
CC: Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
CC: Offshore Group of Banking Supervisors (OGBS)
CC: WORLD CENTRAL BANK (SW)
CC: NIGERIA POLICE FORCE (NPF)
CC: NORTH YORKSHIRE POLICE (UK)
CC: ECONOMIC FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC)

FORWARD THE DOCUMENT TO US VIA EMAIL ATTACHMENT AS SOON AS YOU OBTAIN IT AFTER

WHICH YOU MUST HAVE EFFECTED THE PAYMENT SUM OF $750 TO THE BELOW INFORMATION

WHILE YOU PROVIDE THE MTCN TO MRS FARIDA WAZIRI WITH THE ABOVE EFCC EMAIL

OFFICE ADDRESS FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE (DIST) DOCUMENT TO BE AVAILABLE.

Receiver's Name:Okolie Obinna.E
Sender's Name and Address.
Text Question?Month
Text Answer:August Amount:$750 USD.
Destination:Lagos-Nigeria.

N:B:YOU NEED NOT TO CONTACT HER AT ALL IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD THE FEE, THEN YOU

WILL FALL TO THE CATEGORIES OF THOSE THAT THERE FUND WILL BE RETURN BACK TO THE

CBN TREASURY OFFICE IN NIGERIA WHERE THE CONTRACT IS BEEN EXECUTED.

Only re-confirm to her the following information below when you are effecting

the payment of $750 while you follow instructions by using the above payment

information given to you and Get back to this office as soon as you have done

that for clarification, failure to adhere strickly with this instruction will

definitely lead to lost because as a result of payment cancellation.

1.BENEFICIARY NAME AND ADDRESS.
2.BENEFICIARY TELEPHONE NUMBER.
3.BENEFICIARY AGE/OCCUPATION.
4.BENEFICIARY MARITAL STATUS

The above information will be acknowledge by the serious ones effecting the

payment above mentioned fee being payment for the issuance of the said

documents keeping your fund on-hold here in the United State,then We will not

hesitate to do the needful as soon as we confirm your payment for the issuance

of the (DIST) document and Your on-hold fund will be released immediately here

in the United State.

Best Regards.

Paul A. Schneider.
Deputy Secretary. (Homeland Security.) United States Department of Homeland

Security.
E-mail: us.depthomelandsecurity@hotmail.com

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