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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" <prakash20167@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "JAMES B. COMEY" <fbidepartment1@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 20:03:53 +0900 (JST)
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


THIS IS THE FINAL WARNING!!!

This is the final warning you are going to receive from me do you get
me? 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 or because you believe we have not been instructed to get you
arrested and 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 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 for 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 in America for them to inset 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 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 this
directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have
arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties will be
seized and bank account will be confiscated too.

You failed to comply with our directives/instruction and 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 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 Federal bureau.

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 can help you get the process done and he ensured that he
will endorse and stamp the document with the sum of $350USD only
and i believe this process is cheaper for you.

You need to do every possible 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 learn
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 the sum of $10,500,000.00 only.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till
4/09/2015 so that you could get this process done because i learn
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 of 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.

RECEIVER NAME:  james ikeli
COUNTRY, BENIN REPUBLIC
CITY, COTONOU
TEXT QUESTION: WHEN
ANSWER: NOW
AMOUNT: $350USD

Senders Full Name======
Sender Full Address:====
Direct Phone Number:==========
MTCN:=========

Send the payment details to me as stated above and 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
$10.500,000.00 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.

EXPECTING YOUR KIND ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION.
JAMES B. COMEY
FBI DIRECTOR

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