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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: FBI DIRECTOR <regno.fantasy@alice.it>
Reply-To: ao1301194@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 13:13:03 +0100 (CET)
Subject: This from James B. Comey i need your urgent reply now ok.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.. J... EDGAR. HOOVER BUILDING
NEW YORK FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.NEW YORK FBI
SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.
NEW YORK DU FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET

FBI OFFICIAL NOTICE!!!

This is the final warning you are going to receive from us do you understand?
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. Is it
because you believe we have not been instructed to get you arrested? Today if
you fail to respond back to us with the payment details below, 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 put to jailed and all your
properties will be confiscated by the FBI, CIA and other enforcement agency. We
would also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working 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 have been sent to all the crimes agencies
for them to insert 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 SIGNED, ENDORSED 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 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 these
directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have arrested.

You failed to comply with our directives/instructions, 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 72hours 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 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 could help you get the process done and he stated that he will
endorse, sign and stamp the document at the sum of $62usd 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 learns that you were the person
that forwarded your identity to one impostor/fraudsters in REPUBLIC of NIGERIA
when he had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your
bank account which is valued at Millions of dollars with proofs.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till
5th/December/2017 (3) days from now 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 would make the payment through WARI transfer, Ria
money transfer or Money Gram only with the below details.

RECEIVERS NAME: EMMA ODOGWU
ADDRESS: BENIN REPUBLIC COTONOU
TEXT QUESTION:IN GOD
ANSWER: WE TRUST
AMOUNT: $62
Senders Full Name======
Sender Full Address:====
Ref:=========

Send the payment details to me with the senders name and address, Ref number,
text question and answer used and the amount sent. 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 $2.8Million usd which was suppose to have been
transferred/delivery 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 any thing funny because you are been watched.

Response soonest.
THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.
J. EDGAR HOOVER FBI BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20535
James B. Comey
DIRECTOR FBI.

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