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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 Muller." <gggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: fbi.interpol12@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:14:04 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: TAKE THIS MATTER URGENT BEFORE IT WILL BE PROBLEM.

















This is the (f.b.i)





Fbi headquarters in Washington, d.c.





Federal bureau of investigation





J. Edgar Hoover building





935 Pennsylvania avenue,





Nw Washington, d.c. 20535-0001





Federal bureau of investigation (fbi)





Email; fbi.interpol12@hotmail.com





WEBSITE: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/directmain.htm




















Attention,this
is the final warning you are going to receive from me do you get
me???? I hope youre understand how many times this message has been
sent to you?. We
have warned you so many time and you have decided to ignore our e-mails
or because you believe we have not been instructed to get you arrested,
and today if you fail to respond back to us with the payment then, we
would first send a letter to the mayor of the city where you reside and
direct them to close your bank account until you have been jailed and
all your properties will be confiscated by the fbi. We would also send
a letter to the company/agency that you are working for so that they
could get you fired until we are through with our investigations
because a suspect is not suppose to be working for the government or
any private organization. Your
id which we have in our database been sent to all the crimes agencies
in America for them to inset you in their website as an internet
fraudsters and to warn people from having any deals with you. This
would have been solved all this while if you had gotten the certificate
signed, endorsed and stamped as you where instructed in the e-mail
below. this is the federal bureau of investigation (fbi) am writing in
response to the e-mail you sent to us and am using this medium to
inform you that there is no more time left to waste because you have
been given from the 3rd of January. As stated earlier to have the
document endorsed, signed and stamped without failure and you must
adhere to this directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we
must have arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties
confiscated. 







You
failed to comply with our directives and that was the reason why we
didn't hear from you on the 3rd as our director has already been
notified about you get the process completed yesterday and right now
the warrant of arrest has been signed against you and it will be
carried out in the next 48hours as strictly signed by the fbi director.
We have investigated and found out that you didn't have any idea when
the fraudulent deal was committed with your information's/identity and
right now if you id is placed on our website as a wanted person, i
believe you know that it will be a shame to you and your entire family
because after then it will be announce in all the local channels that
you are wanted by the fbi.





 





As a good Christian and a honest
man, I decided to see how i could be of help to you because i would not
be happy to see you end up in jail and all your properties confiscated
all because your information's was used to carry out a fraudulent
transactions, i called the efcc and they directed me to a private
attorney who could help you get the process done and he stated that he
will endorse, sign and stamp the document at the sum of $69.00 usd
only and i believe this process is cheaper for you. You need to do
everything possible within today and tomorrow to get this process done
because our director has called to inform me that the warrant of arrest
has been signed against you and once it has been approved, then the
arrest will be carried out, and from our investigations we learnt that
you were the person that forwarded your identity to one
impostor/fraudsters in Benin
Republic last year when he had a deal with you about the transfer of
some illegal funds into your bank account which is valued at the sum of
$2.500,000.00 usd.





 





I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency
could give you the 2011/010/01 so that you could get this process done
because i learnt that you were sent several e-mail without getting a
response from you, please bear it in mind that this is the only way
that i can be able to help you at this moment or you would have to face
the law and its consequences once it has befall on you. You would make
the payment through money gram transfer or western union money transfer
with the below details.





 





Receiver name ==== Emaka Ndubuisi





Country======= Benin Republic





City====== Cotonou





Text question==== when





Text answer===== today





Amount=====$69usd





Senders name======





MTCN ======











Send
the payment details to me which are senders name and address, mtcn
number, text question and answer used and the amount sent. Make sure
that you didn't hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today
so that they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped
immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been
carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the transfer
of your compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $2,500,000.00
usd which was suppose to have been transferred to you all this while.





 





PROVID your full information where you want your fund to be transfered including your telephone number





 





Note/
all the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and we
shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You are
given a grace today to make the payment for the document after which
your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and finally you
will be appearing in court for act of terrorism, money laundering and
drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try any thing funny
because you are been watched.











Thanks as i wait for your response





Respectively





Diretor General,





Robert Muller.





Federal bureau of investigation (fbi)


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