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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 OFFICE WASHINGTON DC <fbiofficewashingtondc@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: robertmueller8@sify.com
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:16:12 +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

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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