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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: "ROBERT HAYES" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbiinterpol9978@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:14:31 -0800
Subject: US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Attn:
This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice, the US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY And FEDERAL BUREAU  OF INVESTIGATION , that the sum of $1.400,000.00 Million U.S Dollar has been transferred to an account here in United State Of Americain your name. That is why we have decided to contact you directly to acquire the proper verifications and proof from you to show that you are the rightful person to receive this fund, because the above mentioned amount is a big amount of money, that is why we want to make sure is a legal money you are about to receive to verified that you are not involved with any money laundry.
Be informed that the fund have hit an account in U.S Bank, but right now we have ask not to release the fund to anybody that comes to them, unless we ask them to do so, because we have to carry out our investigations first before releasing the fund to you. Note that the fund is in the Bank of America right now, but we have ask them not to credit it to any account yet, because we need some proof and verifications from you before releasing.
So to this regards you are to reassure and proof to us the legitimate of the money you are about to receive by sending to us DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Identification Record and also Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer (DIST) to satisfy us that the money you are about to receive is free from Terrorism and money laundry act. You are to forward the documents to us immediately if you have it with you, if you dont have it let us know so that we will direct and inform you where to obtain the document and send to us for our verification and proof of ownership which after we will ask the Bank Of America to go ahead in Crediting the fund to you immediately.
 
This Documents are to be issued to you from the place where the fund was transfer from, so get back to us immediately if you dont have the document so that we will inform you the particular place and what it will take to obtain it, because we have come to realize that the fund was transferred from the Federal Republic Of Nigeria, united nations Treasury world bank executed projects  according to our investigations.
An (DOHS) Identification Record and Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) often referred to as a Criminal History Record or Rap Sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the DOHS in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service.
An individual may request a copy of his or her own Identification Record for personal review or to challenge information on the Record. Other reasons an individual may request a copy of his or her own Identification Record may include international adoption or to satisfy a requirement to live or work in a foreign country (i.e., Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer, letter of good conduct, criminal history background, etc.) 
On October 9, 1998, President Clinton signed into law the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact (Compact) Act of 1998, establishing an infrastructure by which states can exchange criminal records for no criminal justice purposes according to the laws of the requesting state, and provide reciprocity among the states to share records without charging each other for the information.  The Compact became effective April 28, 1999, after Montana and Georgia became the first two states to ratify it, respectively.  To date, 27 states have ratified the Compact.
The Compact Council as a national independent authority, works in partnership with criminal history record custodians, end users, and policy makers to regulate and facilitate the sharing the complete, accurate, and timely criminal history record information to no criminal justice users in order to enhance public safety, welfare and security of Society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights.
NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for no criminal justice purposes. If you fail to provide the Documents to us, we will charge you with the US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY and take our proper action against you for not proofing to us the legitimate of the fund you are about to receive. All your responses are expected here   fbiinterpol9978@outlook.com
THANKS FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING.
Mrs. Janet Napolitano.

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