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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: "FROM FBI DIRECTOR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." <"www."@vesta.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "FROM FBI DIRECTOR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." <inwashingtonfbiheadquarters@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:20:50 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM FBI DIRECTOR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

FROM FBI DIRECTOR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Phone: +1 (5162092389)
Email: (inwashingtonfbiheadquarters@gmail.com)

Attention:

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 would also send 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 supposed to be working for the government or any

private organization. Your ID which we have in our database have 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 ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you were instructed in the e-mail below.


This is the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) I want use this medium to inform you that there is no more time left to

waste because you have been given a mandate. 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 will be seized and bank account will be confiscated too.

You failed to comply with our directives/instruction and that was the reason why we didn't hear from you, 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 48hours 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

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 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 can help you get the process done and he

stated that he will endorse and stamp the document at the sum of $200usd only and i believe this process is cheaper for you.

You need to do every possible thing 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 Nigeria and

Benin Republic when he had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account or by consignment

box which is valued at the sum of $4,200,000.00usd only.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 13/3/2017 so that you could get this process done, but I

learn that several e-mails has been sent to you without getting a response from you. 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 had befallen

on you. You would make the payment through western union money transfer with the below details.

INFORMATION:
Receivers Name:Luis Oke
Country :Benin Republic
City: Cotonou
Question:When
Answer:Today
AMOUNT to send:$200usd
Sender's name:
MTCN or REFERENCE Number

Send the payment details to me as stated above and 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 $4,200,000.00usd which was supposed 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 anything funny because you are been watched.

Expecting your anticipated- Co-operation.
Yours in service,
James B. Comey.

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