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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 ALERT <smithfbiwashington@att.net>
Reply-To: williamsfbiwashington@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:24:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FBI ALERT






Anti-Terrorist and Monetary 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


Website: www.fbi.gov.

 

ATTENTION FUND
BENEFICIARY

 

This is an official advice from the FBI foreign Remittance /
telegraph department. It has come to our notice that the C.B.N Bank Nigeria
district has released 5,300,000.00 US dollars into Bank of America in your name
as the beneficiary by inheritance means.

 

The C.B.N Bank Nigeria knowing fully well that they do not
have enough facilities to effect this payment from the united kingdom into your
account, Used what we know as a secret FBI
Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer Certificate
(DIST CERTIFICATE) to transfer these fund via wire transfer.

 

They are still waiting for confirmation from you on the
already transferred funds which was made in direct transfer so that they can do
final crediting to your account.

Secret diplomatic payment is not made unless the funds are
related to terrorist activities. That is why your payment has been made in
secret transfer. If your transaction is legit and you are not a terrorist. Then
why did you not receive the money directly into your account?  This is a pure coded means of payment? Most
Records we have had with this method of payment in the past has always been
related to terrorist acts, We do not want you to get into trouble as soon as
these funds reflect into your account in the U.S.A, so it is our duty as a
world wide commission to correct this little problem before this fund will be
credited into your personal account.

 

Due to the increased difficulty and unnecessary security by
the American authorities when funds enter from outside of Europe, and the
Middle East, The F.B.I Bank Commission for Europe
has stopped the transfer on its way to deliver payment of $5,300,000.00 to
debit your reserve account and pay you through a secured diplomatic transit
account (S.D.T.A). We govern and oversee funds transfer for the World Bank and
the rest of the world.

 

We advice you 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 world
local bank that authorize the transfer in order to certify to us that the funds
you are about to receive from Nigeria are anti-terrorist/drug free or we shall
have cause to cross and impound the Payment, we shall release the funds
immediately we receive this legal documents. (DIST CERTIFICATE)

 

Guarantee: Funds will be released on confirmation of the
document, But If you fail to provide the Documents to us, we will charge you guilty
with the FBI and take our proper action against you for not proving to us the
legitimate of the fund you are about to receive.

 

These Condition Is Valid until 10th March 2011 after which
we shall take actions on canceling the payment and then charge you for
illegally moving funds out of Nigeria.

 

Yours in Service

               

Robert Mueller, III

FBI Director


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