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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: " SIR FLOYED MORGAN" <"www."@muse.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: " SIR FLOYED MORGAN" <fbioffice692@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 02:10:18 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention This is the final warning to you?



Attention This is the final warning 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 immediately,
then Note that we will send a letter to the MAYOR of your city where you reside and direct them to close yourbank account until you have been jailed and all your properties will be confiscated by the FBI,CIA and other enforcement agency. and We will also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working for so that they could get you fired, until we are finalize 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 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 fro a while if you had gotten the OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE,APPROVED 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 oppunitley 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 approved, 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/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 by tomorrow morning 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 $400 usd only and i believe this process is cheaper for you.

You need to do every possible thing 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 learnt that you were the person that forwarded your identity to one impostor/fraudsters in benin and Nigeria when he had a deal with you about the shipment of some illegal ATM card to your destination address which is valued at the thounsards of dollars and some other transcation's.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you untill 30/09/2017 so that you could get this process done because i learnt that you were sent several e-mail 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 has befall on you. You should make this payment through western union office or moneygram office service your locations there with this below details.
Receiver's name:____Rihard Chime
Country:___________Benin Repubilc
City:________________Cotonou
Amount:_____________$400 USD
Mtcn:___________________________
Sender's name______________________

Send the payment slip to me and Make sure that you didn’t hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today and tomorrow so that they could have the certificate approval, signed and stamped immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been carried out, then we will proceed to your transcation's by ourself which you will receive as soon as possible once you have paid the $400 USD only.

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 tomorrow to make the payment for the approvel 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 watching now.


THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.

SIR FLOYED MORGAN
FBI DIRECTOR

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