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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: Fbi Investigation <spare@danishmotors.com>
Reply-To: fbiinvestigation134@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:22:34 -0400
Subject: Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau Of Investigation.



--
Fraud Department Agent Garry Walker and JAMES B. COMEY
IIIAnti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division Fbi Headquarters In
Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
FBI-Washington Field Office 601 Street, NW Washington, DC 20535
Website: www.fbi.gov Email (fbiinvestigation134@gmail.com)

Attention: Dear,

Am writing to make you understand that this is FBI AGENT MR.GARRY WALKER
representing the office of the FBI Director and our fraud department in
which i head has been informed about your refusal to comply with the
directives from the FBI and we are going ahead with the arrest by today
and
tomorrow.

We monitored your contact with this co-men through our global tracking
device that detect all the incoming and outgoing e-mails and tele phone
calls globally from all the countries of the world, We have your e-mail
address under our monitoring device set-up any more e-mails to the
fraudsters from you will be automatically detected.

Our concern in this issue is for your name to be cleared from the
scammers
list which has already been submitted to all the crimes agencies in
Benin,
Germany,Canada ,London and United States Of America, We make sure that
the
laws are followed to the core and this is why the Benin Government which
its citizen carried out the fraudulent activities with your
information's
which you sent to them have to compensate you with the amount as regards
the FBI Laws of Sub-Section 05/16 Of the United Nations Anti-crimes
laws.

We have in our file your details which you sent to them and we have
checked
and found out that you are a honest and hard working person and by this
regards we decided to persuade the Benin Government to compensate you
for
the evil deeds that was carried out with your name.

The German man knows that you are the person because he was duped with
your
identity and this fraudulent activities was carried out by the same
people
who you have been forwarding your information's/details to all this
while
with the pretense of dealing with the right offices in Africa and other
countries of the world.

You will have to get the CLEARANCE FORM from the office of the High
Court
of Justice in Benin Republic at the sum of $145.00 Usd. This certificate
will enable you to get access to the compensation funds of $15.5Million
Usd
which was offered to you by the Benin Republic Government and don't
forget
that you need to get the document within 3days from now as you already
know
the deadline given to you to secure
the document.

If not for the fact that we checked your data before acting towards this
directives given to us, you would have been arrested by now and jailed
because of your association with criminals in the internet and don't
forget
our warnings to you.

You will have to forward your bank account details to us where you want
this $15.5Million Usd to be transferred into as soon as you secure the
CLEARANCE FORM.

The German business man who was duped with your identity has reported
this
case to the world court and it will involve the Government of both
countries which are Germany and Yours and that is the reason why you
must
get this document immediately so as to avoid anybody calling your name
as
being among the fraudsters.

With the Certificate, you are free from any form of crimes as your data
shows that you are a honest and respectable person in the society, You
will
have to send the fees to the High Court of Justice over there in Benin
Republic within 3days from now so that our local agent can be able to
apply
our modalities with the High Court of Justice to issue the CLEARANCE
FORM
to you.

Send the fees of $145.00 through Western Union Money Transfer with the
name
of the account officer in High Court of Justice.

Receivers Name: ida Midokpe Doris Togbe
Country: Benin Republic
Text Question: How Long
Text Answer: Immediately
Amount: $145.00 Usd.

As soon as you send the fees, you will have to get back to us with the
following details which are Senders Name and Address, MTCN Number, Text
Question and Answer Used and the amount Sent.

Then,when all this requirements are in place, the Certificate will be
issued to you and then the compensation funds of $15.5Million Usd will
be
transferred into your bank account immediately.

To avoid the riot of the law on you and your entire family, we have been
pleased to allow you secure the document from the High Court of Justice
Benin Republic so that your name will be cleared off the fraudulent list
in
Benin Republic and we also argued with the Benin Republic Government
about
your compensations and that was the reason why you were compensated with
the sum of $15,500,000.00 Usd.

Thanks as I wait for your response

Respectively
FBI AGENT MR.GARRY WALKER
FBI SPECIAL INVESTIGATION AGENT

FBI Director
JAMES B. COMEY

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