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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" <yanzka@svitonline.com>
Reply-To: davidcmarshall97@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 15:34:03 +0100
Subject: Security Interception of Unsolicited Business Transaction.



--
FBI Washington Field Office
601 4th Street NW
Washington, DC 20535,
www.fbi.gov

Terrorist Screening, checkmating Money laundry/Trafficking, Bank Fraud
Scam.

Attention:Sir/Madam

Security Interception of Unsolicited Business Transaction.

Your full residential address has been forwarded to us for your
immediate arrest to face your charge but I deemed it fit to give you one
more chance to save yourself from this mess. We have been told that you
have failed to dance by the rule of the FBI which will warrant 2 years
jail sentence. Now I David C marshall the special agent in charge of the
FBI Albany department I am giving you 48 working hours to effect the
payment of the $185.00 usd. To the FBI in republic of Benin (fbisecurity
) with the information written below:

RECEIVERS NAME: MARK UDO
CITY: COTONOU
COUNTRY: BENIN REPUBLIC
AMOUNT: $185

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 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 the world for them to inset you in their website as an
internet fraudsters and to warn people from having any deals with you.
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 you must have been arrested and jailed for
two years and all your properties confiscated. You failed to comply with
our directives and that was the reason why we didn't hear from you and
our director has already been notified about you get the process been
completed yesterday and right now the warrant of arrest has been signed
and it will be carried out in the next 48hours as strictly signed by the
fbi director if you don't make the payment within the next 48 working
hours. We have investigated and found out that you didn't have any idea
when the fraudulent deal was committed with your information's/identity
but I have clinically crosschecked the manifest and discovered that
several business transactions have been linked to your email address,
you have consented by either sending money to them or aid the
transactions by providing your information for the movement of the funds
through several means, your email address is on the hard disc right now
and if 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
it will be announce in all the local channels that you are wanted by the
fbi.

Regards,
James B. Comey, Jr (TSGFB/13-PL.3R49)
New Director FBI
Cc: Homeland Security Council
Cc: CIA
Cc: International Police

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