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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 S. MUELLER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbi_office@executivemail.co.za>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:20:13 +0530
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Attention Beneficiary,
Records show that you are among one of the individuals and
organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of
Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we
have noticed that you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters
who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo /Mr. Lamido Sanusi of the
Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank,none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks,UBA, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx,
Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the
Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums
of money to these impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to stop
communication with any one not referred to you by us. We have negotiated with the Federal
Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine
Hundred Thousand Dollars). will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM
card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered by Visa
Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card
Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).
We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the
mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American and
also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been
cleared. Below are few list of tracking numbers and email addresses of people that have recieved there funds, you can track from Delivery
Company website to confirm people like you who have received their payment
successfully.
Name DANIEL:DHL Tracking Number 1426425615 (www.dhl.com) or Email dr.daniels@doctor.com
Name :AMANDA :UPS Tracking Number h8433223480 (www.ups.com) Email: amand.abrown@consultant.com
Name: BRITTANY.WALLACE FedEx Tracking number 875777537332 (www.fedex.com) Email: brittanywallace@usa.com
To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via
email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment
Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which
will cost you $550 Usd only and nothing more as everything else has been taken care of by
the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all
you will ever need to pay is $500.00 only.
Mr.Charles George (ATM Card Center Director)
Bank of Ghana
One Thorpe Road
P. O. Box GP 2674
Accra, Ghana
ATM Card Center Director Mr.Charles George
Email: fbi_office@executivemail.co.za
Phone: +233243684368.
Do contact Mr.Charles George of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above
and furnish him with your details as listed below:
FULL NAMES: __________________________________
DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________
SEX: _______________
DATE OF BIRTH: __________________
OCCUPATION: __________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________
EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________
On contacting him with your details your file would be updated and he will be
sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of
$550.00 via Money Gram for the procurement of
your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order,
after which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated
home address without any further delay, extra fee.
ROBERT S. MUELLER,
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be
in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in
contact with
Mr.Charles George of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to
deal with in
regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this
office so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.

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