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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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Fraud email example:

From: "FBI HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drlamido.sanusi5@qatar.oi>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:35:38 -0700
Subject: Federal Bureau of Investigation Seeking to Wiretap the Internet

*ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION FBI HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON,
D.C.FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001*
** 14/02/2011


Attention:

This is an official letter from the FBI. it has come to our notice that bank
of Nigeria has released 10,500,000.00 U.S dollars. To bank of America in
your name as the beneficiary, By Inheritance means. The bank of Nigeria
knowing fully well that they do not have the ability to effect this Payment
through the United Kingdom directly to your account, used what we know as a
"secret diplomatic transit payment" (S.D.T.P) method to pay this fund by
Wire transfer. They have used this means to complete the payment and they
are waiting for confirmation from you on your transferred funds; Secret
diplomatic payments are not made unless the funds are related to terrorist
activities.


The question i ask you is this, why must your payment be made in a secret
transfer, if the transaction is Legitimate, if you are not a terrorist, then
why did you not receive the money directly into your account? Why did you
instruct them to use a coded means to effect your Payment? In the past funds
like this have always been related to terrorist activities/money laundering,
we do not want you to get into trouble as soon as these funds are credited
into your account Because you might be innocent, which is my presumption for
now, but you need to proof that you are innocent.


It is our duty to correct this anomaly before this fund is Credited to your
personal account. F.B.I has stopped the transfer of US$10,500,000.00
Million through a secured diplomatic transit account (S.D.T.A).that was used
to wire this fund to you.note We oversee funds Transfer for the World Bank.
So we advice you to contact us immediately, as your funds have been stopped
And are being held in our custody, and until you provide us with the
diplomatic immunity seal of transfer (DIST) document that accompanied your
funds within the next 3 days. we will keep your funds in a suspense account


To proof to us that the funds you are receiving from Nigeria is
terrorist/drug free and not proceeds from money laundering in connivance
with the known corrupt government officials Of Nigeria. Failure to produce
the DIST document, We shall have cause to impound the transfer and prosecute
you for criminal offense, but on the contrary we will release your funds
immediately we receive the DIST document. We have decided to contact you
directly by email because of time as a major factor, Acquire the proper
document as proof to show to us that you are The rightful person to receive
this fund,


We want to certify the legitimacy of this funds you are about to receive.
Note that 10,500,000.00 U.S dollars is already in Sherman Texas branch of
the Bank of America now in your favor, but we have asked them not to demand
from you your local bank account information, to do final crediting to you,
because we need a solid proof From you before releasing the funds, to this
effect, you are to proof to us that what you are about to receive is
legitimate by sending to us your Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST)
document to certify that the fund is not for terrorism/money laundering. If
it's in your possession you are to Forward the documents to us immediately
if you don't have it let us know so that we can direct your where to get it.


This Documents will be issued from the Bank That authorized the transfer, so
get back to us immediately if you don't have the document so that we can
direct you to a particular office where you can obtain the document.
{Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer document),


The DIST is very important. Because the DIST document guarantees you of the
under listed

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60t it guarantees the Beneficiary Credit payment is Irrevocable 61h it
guarantees the Beneficiary has full power to receive the funds without
further scrutiny 62j it guarantees the Beneficiary bank can either be in
USA/UK/OUTSIDE or anywhere the beneficiary is and can receive his/her
payment in any country of full residency 64t it guarantees the Beneficiary
has cleared all bank protocols and validation has been authenticated
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You should reply immediately with this needed document if you really want to
receive your transferred funds we intercepted


ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535


cc: Canadian police association
cc: general intelligence department (GID)
cc: Asia pacific group on money laundering (APG)
cc: federal bureau of investigation (FBI USA)

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