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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 <inteldeptfbi1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rbm.gov1@info.al
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:09:03 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FBI


Anti-Terrorist and Financial 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/25/10
 
 
Attention:Fund Beneficiary,
 
 
It has come to the knowledge of the FBI through the Treasury Department, that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has remitted $10,500,000.00 U.S dollars into Bank of America in your name as the beneficiary. The C.B.N knowing fully well that they do not have sufficient credit facilities to effect this payment from the United Kingdom to your account, used "secret diplomatic transit payment" (S.T.D.P) method to effect the transfer.
 
 
Although, you have not been notified on the already transferred fund because it is under review because of the nature of the transfer.which was made into Bank of America for final crediting to your designated bank 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. Since you are not a terrorist, why then you did not receive the money directly into your account. This is a pure coded means of payment, Records which we have had with this method of payment in the past has always been related to terrorist activities, 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 reputable organization to correct this problem before this fund will be credited into your personal account.
 
Due to the increased difficulty and scrutiny by the UK/US authorities when funds come from outside of America, and the Middle East, Hencefort the FBI has stopped the transfer on its way to deliver payment of $10,500,000.00 to credit your account and redirect your payment through a secured diplomatic transit account (S.D.T.A). It is our top priority to oversee funds transferred into the United States of America and the rest of the world because of the urgent need in dismantling terrorist groups. We advice you to contact us immediately, as the funds have been stopped and are being held in our custody, until you can be able to provide us with a diplomatic immunity seal of transfer (dist) within 3 days from the bank that authorize the transfer. This is to certify that the funds that you are about to receive from Nigeria is anti-terrorist and drug free or we shall have cause to cross and impound the fund, we will release the funds immediately we receive this
legal papers.
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We have decided to contact you directly to acquire the proper verifications and proof from you to show that you are the rightful person to receive this fund, because of the amount involve, we want to make sure is a clean and legal money you are about to receive. Be informed that the fund are now in United States in your name, but right now we have ask the bank not to credit your account unless we asked them to do so, because we have to carry out our investigation first before releasing the fund to you. Note that the fund is in the Bank of America , but no further crediting until solid proof and verifications from you before releasing the funds.
 
So to this regards you are to re-assure and prove  to us that what you are about to receive is a legitimate money by sending to the FBI Identification Record and also Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) to certify to us that the money you are about to receive is legitimate.You are to forward the documents to us immediately if you have it in your possession, if you don’t have it let us know so that we will direct you where to obtain the documents and send to us so that we will ask the bank holding the funds to go ahead in crediting your account immediately.
 
Below are the documents required from you, to enact the final crediting to your account.
 
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Final instruction:
60 Credit payment instructions: irrevocable credit guarantee
61 Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared
62 Beneficiaries bank in US or outside. Can only release funds-
63 upon confirmation from the world bank/United Nations
64 Bearers must clear bank protocol and validation request
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NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for the enhancement of public safety welfare and security of Society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the Documents to us,the FBI will take our proper action against you for not proofing to us the legitimate of the fund you are about to receive.
The United States Department of Justice Order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI Identification Record to obtain a copy of his or her own Record for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division processes these requests to check illegal activities in U.S and outside. An individual may request a copy of his or her own FBI Identification record for personal review or to challenge information on the Record. Other reasons an individual may request a copy of his or her own Identification Record may include international adoption or to satisfy a requirement to live or work in a foreign country or receive funds from another country (i.e. Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer, letter of good conduct, criminal history background,etc.)
 
 
Robert S. Mueller, III
 

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