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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: Federal Bureau Of Investigation <cunitedstate@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ifederalbureau20@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:05:33 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: URGENT RESPONDS









Fraud Department Agent Garry Walker and Robert S. Mueller
IIIAnti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division Fbi Headquarters In Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau Of
Investigation.
FBI-Washington Field Office 601  Street, NW Washington, DC

 
Attention:Beneficiary,

Am writing to make you understand that this is FBI AGENT
MR.GARRY WALKER  representing the office of the FBI Director and our fraud
department in which i head has been informed about your refusal to comply with
the directives from the FBI and we are going ahead with the arrest by today and
tomorrow.
 
We monitored your contact with this co-men through our global
tracking device that detect all the incoming and outgoing e-mails and telephone
calls globally from all the countries of the world,  We have your e-mail address
under our monitoring device set-up any more e-mails to the fraudsters from you
will be automatically detected.
 
Our concern in this issue is for your
name to be cleared from the scammers list which has already been submitted to
all the crimes agencies in Benin, Germany,Canada ,London and United States Of
America, We make sure that the laws are followed to the core and this is why the
Benin Government which its citizen carried out the fraudulent activities with
your information's which you sent to them have to compensate you with the amount
as regards the FBI Laws of Sub-Section 12/13 Of the United Nations Anti-crimes
laws.
 
We have in our file your details which you sent to them and we
have checked and found out that you are a honest and hard working person and by
this regards we decided to persuade the Benin Government to compensate you for
the evil deeds that was carried out with your name.The German man knows that you
are the person because he was duped with your identity and this fraudulent
activities was carried out by the same people who you have been forwarding your
information's/details to all this while with the pretense of dealing with the
right offices in Africa and other countries of the world.
 
You will have
to get the CLEARANCE FORM from the office of the High Court of Justice in Benin
Republic at the sum of $175.00 Usd. (One Hundred and Seventy five United States
Dollars Only) This certificate will enable you to get access to the compensation
funds of $1.2Million Usd which was offered to you by the Benin Republic
Government and don't forget that you need to get the document within 3days from
now as you already know the deadline given to you to secure the
document.
 
If not for the fact that we checked your data before acting
towards this directives given to us, you would have been arrested by now and
jailed because of your association with criminals in the internet and don't
forget our warnings to you.You will have to forward your bank account details to
us where you want this $1.2Million Usd to be transferred into as soon as you
secure the CLEARANCE FORM.
 
The German business man who was duped with
your identity has reported this case to the world court and it will involve the
Government of  both countries which are Germany and Yours and that is the reason
why you must get this document immediately so as to avoid anybody calling your
name as being among the fraudsters.
 
With the Certificate, you are free
from any form of crimes as your data shows that you are a honest and respectable
person in the society, You will have to send the fees to the High Court of
Justice over there in Benin Republic within 3days from now so that our local
agent can be able to apply our modalities with the High Court of Justice to
issue the CLEARANCE FORM to you.
 
Send the fees of $175.00 through
Western Union Money Transfer with the name of the account officer in High Court
of  Justice.
 
Receivers Name:Tonny Osita
Country: Benin
Republic
Text Question: How Long
Text Answer: Immediately
Amount:
$175.00
Sender Name.........
Sender Country.....
MTCN
As soon as you send the fees, you will have to get back to us with
the following details which are Senders Name and Address, MTCN Number, Text
Question and Answer Used and the amount Sent.
 
Then,when all this
requirements are in place, the Certificate will be issued to you and then the
compensation funds of $1.2Million Usd will be transferred into your bank account
immediately.
                       
To avoid the riot of the law on you
and your entire family, we have been pleased to allow you secure the document
from the High Court of  Justice Benin Republicso that your name will  be cleared
off the fraudulent list in Benin Republic and we also argued with the Benin
Republic Government about your compensations and that was the reason why you
were compensated with the sum of $1,200,000.00 Usd.
 
Respectively
AGENT GARRY
WALKER
FBI SPECIAL INVESTIGATION AGENT
FBI Director
Robert S. Mueller,
III

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