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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 DEPARTMENT OFFICE <officefbidepartment@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: robertmueller8@sify.com
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:17:21 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division Fbi Headquarters In Washington, D.C.


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, 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 times 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 $660.00 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 Nigeria 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 $10.500,000.00 usd.
 
I pleaded on
your behalf so that this agency could give you the 31/11/2011 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 western union
money transfer with the below details.
 
NAME: PRINCE OBI
ADDRESS: NIGERIA
TEXT QUESTION:FOR
ANSWER: YOU
AMOUNT: $660
Senders name======
 
Send
the payment details to me including your 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
or tomorrow morning 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 funds which is valued of sum of $10.5 million
usd which was suppose to have been transferred to you all this while.
 
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 and tomorrow to make the
payment for the document after which you fail to do that it 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 FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.




 




MR. ROBERT MUELLER
WASHINGTON DC


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