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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: "Mr.Robert Mueller 111" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robertsmueller1112012@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 01:15:24 +0100
Subject: This is Robert S. Mueller III of Federal Bureau of Investigation

US-FBI-ShadedSeal.svg
 
Federal Bureau of Investigation
 
FBI Seattle Division
1110 Third Avenue
Seattle. 98101-2904
 
 
This is Robert S. Mueller III of Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI).The FBI in alliance with the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS), with their Head Office there in Nigeria has
been working towards the total eradication of fraudsters and scam in the
Western part of Africa With the help of the United States Government and
the (U.N) United Nations. We have been able to track down so many of this
scammers in various parts of west African States, which includes (NIGERIA,
REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA CAMEROUN AND SENEGAL) and they are all in
our custody over there in Lagos Nigeria, meanwhile during the process of arrest,
We were able to recover some funds from the prosecueted scammer.
 
 
Regarding this great achievement, the (U.N) United Nations Anti-crime
 
commission and the United State Government have ordered that the money
recovered from these Scammers be shared among 100 Lucky people around the
globe.This email is been directed to you because your email address was
found in one of the file and computer hard disk recovered from the
prosecuted scammers there in our custody. You are therefore being
compensated with the sum of $1Million Dollars. We have also arrested
all those who claimed to be Barristers, Bank Officials, Lottery
Agents,Person or group of Person's who claim to have funds in their
custody that belonged to you or want you to be the Next of kin of such
funds which do not exist.
 
 
Since your email appeared among the lucky Beneficiaries who will receive a
compensation of $1Million Dollars, we have arranged your payment
through our swift card payment center with Skye Bank Plc.
 
Please do Feel free to contact the processing officer Mr.Garry Moore. The
swift card has been specially prepared to enable you withdraw your money
in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is Four
Thousand Dollars Only per day, due to security reasons, So you are
therefore adviced to contact the processing officer Mr.Garry Moore. with
the required information as stated below.
 
 
CONTACT PERSON: Mr.Garry Moore.
Director Skye Bank Swift Card Payment Center
CONTACT EMAIL: (mrgarrymoore2011@lawyer.com)
Tel: +234 802 666 3371
 
 
You are advice to forward the information bellow to enable him prepare your ATM Card including your Pin for easy accessibility.
 
 
Your Full Name__________________________
Your Address____________________________
P.O.BOX_________________________________
Country_________________________________
Telephone Number________________________
Mobile Number___________________________
Fax Number______________________________
Occupation______________________________
Marital Status__________________________
Age_______________Sex___________________
 
 
Officially Sign.
    
Robert S.Mueller III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA
 
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/executives/director

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