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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: "ROBERT MUELLER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <adebayopeters30@yahoo.it>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 03:33:26 -0700
Subject: Federal Bureau Of Investigation

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: http://www.fbi.gov/

Attention Beneficiary


FBI OFFICIAL NOTICE
GET BACK TO US WITHOUT ANY DELAY IF YOU DONT WANT US TO ARREST YOU AND JAIL YOU FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

This is the final warning you are going to receive from us after will have contacted you several times without any response

from you.

We have warned you so many times and you have decided to ignore our e-mails, is it because you believe we have not been

instructed to get you arrested? If you fail to respond back to us we will first send a letter to the MAYOR of the city where

you reside and direct them to close your bank account 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 work for them to suspend you from work until

we are through with our investigations because a suspect is not supposed to be working for the government or any private

organization until we are through with our investigation.

Be informed that Your ID and your information which we have in our database will be send to all the crime agencies in America

for them to be aware that you are fraudsters and also warn people from having any Business with you. This would have been

solved all this while if you had gotten the CERTIFICATE SIGNED, ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you were 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 these directives to avoid you blaming

yourself at last when we must have arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties confiscated.

You are advised to comply with our directives/instruction for us to assist you get this transaction concluded. Our director

has already been notified to 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 your 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 will help you get the process done and he

stated that he will endorse, sign and stamp the document at the sum of $180usd 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 $10.500,000.00usd.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 5/8/2012 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. I

will advise you to go ahead and make the payment through western union money transfer with the below details for me to get

this transaction concluded.

NAME: BALEY LAMIN
ADDRESS: LAGOS NIGERIA
TEXT QUESTION:IN GOD
ANSWER: WE TRUST
AMOUNT: $180
Senders Full Name======
Sender Full Address:====
MTCN:=========

Send the payment details which you use in making the payment .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 $10.500,000.00usd which was supposed 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 the 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 anything funny because you are been watched.

THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.

ROBERT MUELLER

WASHINGTON DC
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

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