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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: Federal Bureau of Investigations <info@cloudapp.azure.com>
Reply-To: <sfernandoramos@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 21:49:05 +0200
Subject: Important Notification from FBI

Contact Dr. Santos Fernando Ramos Via Email: sfernandoramos@yahoo.com

Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI Seattle Division
1110 Third Avenue
Seattle. 98101-2904


Attn

This is Christopher Wray , the new Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) nominated by the President of the United States of America. President Donald Trump. The FBI in alliance with the Economic Community of West Asia States (ECOWAS), with their Head Office there in West Africa has been working towards the total eradication of fraudsters and scam in the Western part of West Africa With the help of the United States Government and the (U.N) United Nations. We have been able to track down so many of this scammers in various parts of Asia States, which includes (London, REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA CAMEROON, SENEGAL AND NIGERIA) and they are all in our custody over there, meanwhile during the process of arrest, We were able to recover some funds from the prosecuted scammer.

Regarding this great achievement, the (U.N) United Nations Anti-crime commission and the United State Government have ordered that the money recovered from these Scammers be shared among 100 Lucky people around the globe.This email is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of the file and computer hard disk recovered from the prosecuted scammers there in our custody. You are therefore being compensated with the sum of $10.5 Million Dollars. We have also arrested all those who claimed to be Barristers, Bank Officials, Lottery Agents, Person or group of Person's who claim to have funds in their custody that belonged to you or want you to be the Next of kin of such funds which do not exist.

The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria his Excellency President Good luck Jonathan to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organization who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes.

Now how would you like to receive your payment? Because we have two method of payment which is by Check or by ATM card?

ATM Card: We will be issuing you a custom pin based ATM card which you will use to withdraw up to $5,000 per day from any ATM machine that has the Master Card Logo on it and the card have to be renewed in 2 years time which is 2020. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your local bank account. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten you about how to use it. Even if you do not have a bank account.

Check: To be deposited in your bank for it to be cleared within three working days. Your payment would be sent to you via any of your preferred option and would be mailed to you via UPS. Because we have signed a contract with UPS which should expire in next three weeks, the only fee you have to pay is $520 usd only. No extra payment will be demanded or added to this bill.

Take note that anyone asking you for some kind of money above the usual fee of $520 usd is definitely a fraudsters and you will have to stop communication with every other person if you have been in contact with any. Also remember that all you will ever have to spend is $520 nothing more! Nothing less! And we guarantee the receipt of your fund to be successfully delivered to you within the next 48hrs after the receipt of payment has been confirmed.

Please do Feel free to contact the processing officer Dr. Santos Fernando Ramos. The swift card has been specially prepared to enable you to withdraw your Money in any ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is Five Thousand Dollars Only per day, due to security reasons, So you are therefore advised to contact the processing officer Dr. Santos Fernando Ramos with the required information as stated below.


CONTACT PERSON: Dr. Santos Fernando Ramos
ATM CARD Director (United Nations Compensation Board) West Africa Head Quarters
CONTACT EMAIL: sfernandoramos@yahoo.com
Tel: +1(202) 996-1378


You are advice to forward the information bellow to enable him prepare your Payment for easy accessibility.


Your Full Name__________________________
Your Address____________________________
P.O.BOX_________________________________
Country_________________________________
Telephone Number________________________
Mobile Number___________________________
Fax Number______________________________
Occupation______________________________
Marital Status__________________________
Age_______________Sex_________________

Officially Sign.

Mr. Christopher Wray FBI Director
Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA

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