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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: "Hon. Benjamin Adam" <"..."@snow.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "..." <unitedbankcotonou@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 02:10:51 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Hi,

I am Andrew McCabe the United States FBI director charge, am hereby announcing to you that your ATM Card fund from Benin Republic government authorities, and Mrs. Jane Frederick, came forward and claimed that they are having problem in the process of your Card.

This is to bring to your notice that we have just been informed through secrete source that the fund will be cancel at any time without date, the lady that contacted us, earlier and presented some documentations evidence that you have chose to ignore their messages.

I want to personally assure you once again that you will have every course to smile and be happy upon conclusion of this project, as we are monitoring all they service with them in any level as well as your correspondence, until you receive your ATM Card fund, as an LEGAL OWNER, we are here to protect your interest and that is the reason why we are doing all we can to make sure all goes well, this is a huge amount of money which we don’t wish for you to lose.contact United Bank For African, with below info, and you need to pay the required Custom Clearance Certificate charges as imposed to enable them route your fund to you with immediate effect. This is a life time opportunity and we will advise you to take advantage of it, before it will be too late.

Director Name :Hon. Benjamin Adam
E-Mail: unitedbankcotonou@gmail.com


God bless you!

Thanks.

Yours in service

Best Regards

Andrew G. McCabe

BADGE – JTT0471011111
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

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