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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: "James B. Comey" <directorbasil@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jamescomey@kelebek.gen.tr
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 15:38:46 +0100
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.. J... EDGAR. HOOVER BUILDING
WASHINGTON D.C FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DU FBI SEEKING
TO WIRETAP INTERNET FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DU FBI
SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET FBI OFFICIAL NOTICE!!!

Federal Bureau of InvestigationFederal Bureau of Investigation FEDERAL
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET.FED
GOVERNEMNTOF THE UNITED STATES Anti-Terrorist and Monitary 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 warrant no; usa/batch/tzx/washington DC
FBI. inest. Washington


FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.. J... EDGAR. HOOVER BUILDING
WASHINGTON D.C FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DU FBI
SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
FBI.WASHINGTON DU FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET FBI OFFICIAL
NOTICE!!!

GOOD DAY TO YOU.
This is the final warning you are going to receive from us do you
understand? 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. Is it because you believe we have not been
instructed to get you arrested? 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 put to 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 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 for them to insert 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
these directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must
have arrested.

You failed to comply with our directives/instructions, 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 48 hours 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 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 could help you get the
process done and he stated that he will endorse, sign and stamp the
document at the sum of $400 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 learns that you were the person that forwarded your
identity to one impostor/fraudsters in BENIN REPUBLIC when he had a
deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank
account which is valued at Millions of dollars with proofs.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till
5/7/2014 (3) DAYS from now so that you could get this process done
because i learn t 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.

Here is the western union or Money Gram information that you are
going to used to send the money
RECEIVE NAME: EMMANUEL EKENE IGWEZE
ADDRESS: BENIN REPUBLIC COTONOU
TEXT QUESTION: A
ANSWER: B
AMOUNT: $400
Senders Full Name======
Sender Full Address:====
MTCN:=========
Send the payment details to me with the 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
(US$10.500.000 Million) 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.

FBI Directors James B. Comey
E-mail:( jamescomey@kelebek.gen.tr )
Response soonest.
THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.

VICTOR COLLINS BENINUE CONSULATE TO THE FBI
J. EDGAR HOOVER FBI BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20535

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