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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: "Robert S. Mueller III" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robertmuelleriii@gawab.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 13:07:45 +0100
Subject: BE GUIDED ACCORDINGLY AND DO NOT SAY WE DID NOT WARN YOU.

ROBERT S. MUELLER III
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FBI
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION,WASHINGTON DC.
PHONE : 1-800-822-1636, FAX : 1-212-208-4478.


FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET.
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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and its attachments may contain non-public, confidential
or legally privileged information. The unlawful interception, use or disclosure of such information is prohibited.
If you are not the intended recipient, or have received this communication in error, please notify the sender
immediately by reply email and delete all copies of this communication and attachments without reading or
saving them.


Dear Beneficiary.
First of all, I do not know if I am talking to the right person, but I will like you to confirm if you are the owner
of this email ID, but somehow I am not comfortable and too sure. So I just want to make sure am
communicating with the real owner of this Email ID Whom we also have your other detail in our data. We
believe this notification meets you in a very good present state of mind and health. We the Federal bureau of
investigation (FBI) Washington has been notified by Dr. Ekoli Mohammud (Director Foreign Remittance Dept.
Bank Of Africa (BOA) Avenue Jean Paul 11 08 BP 0879 Cotonou Republic of Benin, Tel: (229) 93 47 77 70
Fax: (229) 21 33 02 45 Telex: 5079-SWIFT:AFRIBJBJ E-mail: (emohammud@gmail.com)) about your Overdue
payment fund which was fully endorsed in your favor accordingly which was left in care of the BankOf Africa
(BOA) for onward payment to you.


It might interest you to know that we have taken out time in screening through this project as stipulated on
our protocol of operation and have finally confirmed that your Overdue Payment Fund is 100% genuine,
legitimate and you have the lawful right to claim your fund without any further delay. Having said all this, we
will further advise that you go ahead in dealing with them accordingly as we will be monitoring all their services
with you as well as your correspondence at all level.

I also want to use this opportunity to WARN you against some hoodlums that are impersonating and acting
as Dr. Ekoli Mohammud for the purpose of extorting money from unsuspecting CITIZENS like you hence they
are in contact with you, Be very vigilant and always forward to my office, any messages sent to you before
replying to them so that we can confirm if its genuine or not. We are poised to taking this precaution so as to
make sure you don't fall victim again to those miscreants who are claiming to be whom they are not. Here is
his contact information for you to contact him and get back to our office.

Dr. Ekoli Mohammud
(Director Foreign Remittance Dept. Bank Of Africa (BOA)
Avenue Jean Paul 11 08 BP 0879 Cotonou Republic of Benin
Tel: (229) 93 47 77 70 Fax: (229) 21 33 02 45 Telex: 5079
E-mail: (emohammud@gmail.com) SWIFT:AFRIBJBJ.

NOTE: you are to reconfirm your names, address and amount owed to you as we have it in our Data here to
proof that you are the right beneficiary and the only money you will spend is US$92 to legalize your File /
Transfer, we are taking this preventive measure because we do not want to talk to the wrong person because
of the sensitivity of the information regarding your outstanding Payment. Other details will be forward to you
by Dr. Ekoli Mohammud as soon he is convinced that you are the right person.

In your best interest, any message that doesn't come from the above official email address and phone numbers
should not be replied to and should be disregarded accordingly for security reasons. The reason is because
we have been notified by Dr. Ekoli Mohammud to warn you about some hoodlums that are using this medium
to extract money from innocent citizens. We have started our investigation on how to get these hoodlums and
as well bring them to book and note that any information you send to us will go a long way in helping us track
these fraudsters down. To this effect, we will like you to forward to us any of their contact information so as
to enable us forward copy to all the relevant security agencies.

We will continue monitoring all the services of this project during and after your funds must have been routed
to you as designated so you need nothing to worry about prior to that. All we just need from you is your utmost
cooperation as it is our duty to protect your interest at all time. Have a blessed day!

Best Regards,
Robert S. Mueller III
Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI
Washington D.C Room,7367 J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20535.

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