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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: "MR.JAMES COMEY." <biblio-med@ns.med.ulatina.ac.pa>
Reply-To: jamesbcomeyifbddirector@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 23:12:35 -0500
Subject: Federal bureau of investigation (FBI)



This is the (f.b.i)
FBI headquarters in Washington, d.c.
Federal bureau of investigation
J. Edgar Hoover building
935 Pennsylvania avenue,
NW Washington, d.c. 20535-0001
Federal bureau of investigation (FBI)

Attention to you (?) this is the final warning you are going to
receive from me
do you get me????

I hope your 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 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. 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 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 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 from the 25th of october 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 confiscated.

You failed to comply with our directives and that was the reason why we didn't
hear from you on the )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 24hours 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 you 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 $500.00 usd only and i
believe this process is cheaper for you. You need to do everything possible
within 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 Benin Republic this year when he had a deal
with you
about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account which
is valued
at the sum of large amount of money.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you the
28/10/2016 being
friday so that you could get this process done because i learn that you were
sent several e-mail without getting a response from you, please 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 be fall on
you. You
would make the payment through western union money transfer with the
below details.


Receiver name ==== DAN EKENE
Country======= Benin Republic
City====== Cotonou
Text question==== Urgent
Text answer===== Now
Amount=====$500 usd
Mt==========(fill it in)
Senders name======

Send the payment details to me which are 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 $1.500,000.00 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.

Thanks as i wait for your response

Respectively
Agent JAMES COMEY.
E-mail//jamesbcomeyifbddirector@gmail.com
Federal bureau of investigation (FBI)

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