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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 DIRECTOR <info.fbioffice2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:01:32 +0100
Subject: FINAL WARNING =FOR MORE DETAILS TO AVOID ARRESTING YOU.

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 Beneficiary

This is the final warning you are going to receive from me do you get me? I
hope you 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 details below,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,CIA and other enforcement
agency. 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 have 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 a mandate. 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/instruction and that was the
reason why we didn't hear from you, 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 4hours 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 $44 usd
only and i believe this process is cheaper for you.


You need to do every possible thing 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 $1,200,000.00
usd.


I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 7/17/2012
so that you could get this process done because i learnt that you were sent
several e-mail without getting a response from you, 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.

Senders Name:____
Recivers name:___Jona Uzoma Simple
Country:___ Benin Republic
City:___Cotonou
Question:___Who is our savior?
Answer:____The Lord Jesus.
MTCN:_____
Amount:____$44


Send the payment details to me which are 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 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
compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $1,200,000.00 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 to make the payment for the document after which your
failure to do that 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.

ROBERT S. MUELLER III
FBI DIRECTOR

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