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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: HOMELAND SECURITY SERVICES <tinner95b@gmail.com>
Reply-To: homelandcentralintelligenceagency10@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 03:03:16 -0700
Subject: HOMELAND SECURITY SERVICES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA)

HOMELAND SECURITY SERVICES
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA)
16/02/2016
HOMELAND TRANSACTIONS:

ATTN:

We have been directed to inform you that we have been monitoring all
your contacts with some fraudsters/impostors on the internet that
claims to be working for the Nigerian/Benin/Ghana Government and the
I.M.F and this agency which is HOMELAND SECURITY SERVICES AND THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) has been on your aid in other to
protect you from being prosecuted by the International Crimes
Department by asking you to secure the FREE CITIZEN CERTIFICATE after
the Clean Bill Certificate has been issued to you previously by the
I.M.F as we have it here in our database but instead of you doing that
you still continue you contact with the Criminals on the internet that
claim to be working for the release of some fraudulent funds to you.

You are suppose to have been arrested earlier before now by the
Federal Bureau Of Investigations following the orders that were given
by the International Crimes Department, the Benin Government has been
contacted on this development and they are also helping us in tracking
down on the criminals that has been confusing you all this while.

So right now all you need to do in other to protect your image and
that of your entire country is to get the CLEAN BILL CERTIFICATE as
you have been warned because we are suppose to carry out the arrest on
you today but due to the fact that some assignments was carried out by
the fraud department of the I.M.F, it has been canceled and the new
date would be announced later.

This is the final notification that I would be sending to you because
we already have all your details/information and you ID in our
database which would be forwarded to the WORLD COURT as your name has
been enlisted in the WORLD SCAM RECORDS as a top 11 fraudster.

For the last time we are advising that you stop any further contact
with any person or group of persons that claims to be working for the
issuance of your funds because no such funds exist as far as we are
concerned and the only funds that was entitled to you of which the FBI
has been given the necessary order to necessitate the transfer is the
compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $1.2million us
dollars that was issued to by the Benin republic Government to
compensate you for the embarrassment and insults to your personality
which the Benin Fraudsters used your identity to dupe a German
business man of a huge amount of money and which we are still
investigating until this moment.

If you know that you really want to save your life and the future of
your family, we are advising that you secure the FREE CITIZEN
CERTIFICATE so that your name can be short listed from the fraudsters
list which has already been submitted to the International Crimes
Department and this certificate will give access to the issuance of
your compensation funds.

We have also spread our networks to the following countries which are
Australia, Canada, Africa, United Kingdom, Asia and Poland.

All the people that have their names in the list would be inset in our
website any moment from now because we are charged to wipe away all
the fraudulent transactions being held on the internet in which many
people have lost their lives and properties.

So it will be better for you to update us on the actual date in which
you would be able to make the payment of $95 Us dollars to the agency
over there in BENIN for them to issue the FREE CITIZEN CERTIFICATE to
you because that is the only guarantee that would make us believe that
your name and ID was really forged and not real as claimed because the
German Business Man has contacted all the Crimes Agency on this matter
and it was your ID that he has placed in all the Crimes Department for
a search of you.

This Certificate will be attached along with the previous Clean Bill
Certificate so that the attorney who is handling this process could
get everything mandated as you have only 12hours to co-operate with
this directives and this last Certificate as stated by the issuance
department would cost you the sum of $95 Us dollars and this fees
should be paid within a short while from now on.

The payment should be sent through Money Gram Transfer with the below details:

Receivers Name: OGUGUA PAUL
COUNTRY: BENIN REPUBLIC,
CITY . COTONOU
Text Question: Urgent
Text Answer: Attention
Amount: $95dollars.
MTCN;

The payment details should be sent once the payment has been sent and
don't forget to include the Senders Name and Address and the MTCN
NUMBER.

This is our advice to you and we do hope to get a positive feed back
from you as soon as
possible.Email:(homelandcentralintelligenceagency10@hotmail.com)

Best Regards
Mr.Johnson Hoover

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