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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: "FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mcllintockdennis@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 07:45:22 -0800
Subject: GREAT NEWS ON RELEASE OF YOUR FUND

CYBER WIRETAP AND FUNDS RECOVERY DEPARTMENT,
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.
J.EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
NW WASHINGTON,D.C USA.


Attn:


This is to inform you that the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) Washington,D.C,U.S.A have been informed via our monitoring network attached to the U.N International Criminal Court regarding outstanding payment been part of funds(One million euros) due to be paid to you by financial organizations in Europe but due to an unlawful reason arising from bad eggs in some of the offices therefore delaying your payment,it might interest you to know that we have taken out time in screening through this whole transactions and discovered that your funds transfer process was dully processed but the transfer was not completed due to some reasons.


On behalf of cyber WIRETAP Administrative Board and Fund Recovery Dept ,we wish to solicit your co operation and pronounce our sincere apology for the inconveniences you must have gone throuugh all this period .we are presently doing our best to track this corrupt officials down and will implore you to keep this as a secret to avoid them from diverting your funds for personal uses.now i will like you to kindly answer if the following rings a bell: WESTCON SECURITY,SPANISH ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT AND ADVOCATATEN VAN

We hereby request that you stop further communication with the listed people and every other person you must have been dealing with regarding this payment .They are at this moment been investigated for financial crimes .You will be charged for FRAUD if you fail to stop communication with this people and therefore reported to the CIA and Homeland Security.



You are to contact back to this office and then we will proceed with the full investigation and also an arrrest to those involved all this years.

Finally,you are warned to STOP communication with this group of criminals from europe or any other organization you might have been dealing with .Our assigned payment office will direct you on how to recieve your payments today do contact them.


Your Urgent response will be needed


Mr.Dennis Mcllintock
federal Bureau of Ivestigation (FBI)
Washington DC ,USA
WEB:www.fbi.org.
11/01/2015

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