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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: " Your's Sincerely" <"www."@onyx.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: " Your's Sincerely" <jamesfbioffice10@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:18:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM FBI OFFICE



FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE,
NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
For your attention:

This is the final warning you are going to receive from Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI)
A transfer worth us$26.5million was transfer in your favor without
proper documentation, so you are under an observational in connection
with money laundering. If the funds comes from a legitimate and legal
source, the proper guidelines for you to receive the fund is to
provide official monitory transaction release document so the funds
will be legally process and recorded and accounted for and then
finally released to you without any question or problem.

You have been warned so many times and you have decided to ignore it
believing we are not real or serious to get you arrested, the truth is
that we have given you grace to respond according to the instruction
and since you fail to respond back as expected , fbi will send a
letter to nearest police officer to your city where you reside and
direct he to close your bank account and all your properties will be
confiscated by higher authoritarians, until you provide necessary
documents for this fund.

The very heart of FBI operations lies in our investigations--which
serve, as our mission states, "to protect and defend the United States
against terrorist and the world at large. So follow our instructions
properly to avoid any action befall on you.

FBI wish 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 Benin Republic Government and other government agency,
CIA (F.B.I) 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 LEGAL CERTIFICATE and Clean Bill Certificate which
will be issued to you by Nigeria Government.

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

This is the final notification because FBI has all your
details/information and you ID in our database which would be
forwarded to HIGH COURT as your name has been listed in the WORLD SCAM
RECORDS as a top 11 fraudster.

For the last time we are advising you to stop any further contact with
any person or group of persons that claims to be working for any
government office for RELEASED of this funds because nobody has any
right to release this us$26.5million expect FBI Alone, so focus your
attention in our instruction.

You have to secure CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE so that your name can be
shortlisted from the scammers list which has already been submitted to
the International Crimes Department and this
certificate will give you access to receive the fund into your
personally bank account without any delay .

FBI has 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 ready to wipe away all the
fraudulent transactions being held on the internet in which many
people have lost their lives and properties.

This would have been solved all this while if you had gotten the
certificate signed and stamped. this is the federal bureau of
investigation (fbi) am writing in response to information reaching our
head office using this medium to inform you that there is no more time
left because you have been given two days As stated to have the
document signed and stamped without that you face the law .

Failure to comply with our directives FBI will get you arrested, hope
you know the shame it will bring to your family because after that it
will be announce in all the local channels and TV station that you are
jail by FBI for illegal moving of funds. And also announce to public.

As good and honest man i will not be happy to see you in jail, so I
decided to see how i can help 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, so
i called our AGENT IN E.F.C.C and he directed me to a private attorney
who will help you get the process done and he stated it will cost
us$998.00 to get the CLEARANCE document stamp and sign in your name
and i believe is good cheaper.

You need to do everything humanly possible today and tomorrow to get
this fee sent in order for the documents to be issued in your name, as
a director if you fail to adhere with instruction COURT grant approve
of Warrant Arrest it will not take us two days to get you, and from
our investigations we learn that you were the person that forwarded
your identity to this impostor/fraudsters when he had a deal with you
about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you time to
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
this is the only way that i can be able to help you at this moment
before the law place.

stated is contact information of the attorney who will process and
acquire this documents for you, name :Joseph Obi, his direct
Telephone: +229-98270465 and note,have only 48hours to co-operate
with this directives and if you need any assistant you can call James
Comey for more info.

The payment of us$998.00 should be sent through Western Union Money
Transfer or Money Gram with the below details:

Receivers Name: Jacky Edu
Location: Cotonou/ Benin Republic
Question: How LONG
Answer: 48hours
Amount: $998
Senders:
Mtcn:

Send the payment details such as : senders name and address, mtcn
number, text question and answer. Make sure you didn't hesitate in
making the payment as directed by this agency today so that they could
have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped without any further
delay.

After all this process has been carried out, then we will proceed to
the bank for the transfer of us$26.5million which was supposed to have
been transferred to you all this while but due to lack of needed
documents the fund is still not credited into your account will be
final released to you by F.B.I.

Note/ all the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and
we shall trace you if you disregard this instructions. as failure to
comply will attract a maximum arrest and finally you will be appearing
in jail for act of terrorism, money laundering, so be warned not to
try anything funny.

Thanks as i wait for your urgent response

NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most
complete and up-to date records possible for no criminal justice
purposes.

WARNING: failure to produce the above requirement in the next 72
hours, legal action will be taken immediately by arresting and
detaining you, if found guilty, you will be jailed. As terrorism, drug
trafficking and money laundering is a serious problem in our community
today. The F.B.I will not stop at any length in tracking you down and
prosecuting any criminal who indulge in this criminal act

Your's Sincerely
Robert S. Mueller, III
(jamesfbioffice10@yahoo.com)
FBI Director

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