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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: "David Bowdich FBI Deputy Dr" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <2436284292@qq.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 23:47:52 -0000
Subject: Details Of Your Over-Due Paid Funds....


FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)
Monetary And Anti-Terrorist Crime Division
FBI HEAD-QUARTERS: J. Edgar Hoover Building 935
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20535-0001
United States Of America.


To whom It May Concern;

With all due respect, we the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) USA. Noticed through our Intelligence Monetary Monitoring Network (IMMN) that your paid funds have not reach you due to bad and corrupt officers so far. We've been able to arrest few of them who are now under investigation. It may interest you to know that this Compensation Funds has been awarded to you and few selected Individuals and NGOs companies by the United Nations Economic and Social Council due to some positive reasons about your citizenship record derived from us. But it's unfortunate we just got notified that your compensation payment has remain unpaid to you due to corrupt offices and so many impostor out there. This Email is to enlighten you of a very important information about the recent approval for the complete release of your Compensation payment by a reliable and genuine payment source. This Funds will be of a great help to redeem you from all the difficulties of life. So Read Carefully
& Understand This Mail.

I am Deputy Director David Bowdich, a highly placed official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During our recent previous meeting held between the United Nations Economic and Social Council with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) directorates, I was assigned to take responsibility of all the (20) lucky beneficiary compensation Remittance/Payment to them without stress. So it may interest you to know that you are lucky to be among the list of individuals and companies whose Compensation funds have been approved for payment under the stipulated guidelines of the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It was also agreed at the meeting that after releasing out this information to all lucky beneficiaries, whosoever compensation funds that will be found in the Financial Database waiting without claims after the submission of every payment awareness e-mailed letter, such funds shall be confiscated and forfeited to t
he U.N account.

It is our pleasure to inform you that your approved compensation funds worth the sum of US$5,500,000.00 (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) has been verified and processed by the Funds Remittance Unit (F.R.U) in your name and its ready to be paid to you. But for your notice; Each beneficiary funds has been deposited into different fix account with the BANK OF AMERICA (BOA). In respect to this progress an ATM DEBIT MASTER CARD capable of withdrawing out the maximum sum of US$10,000 on a daily basis from your US$5,500,000.00 has been issued in your name and favor. So we will be delivering this ATM card and it's secret PIN CODE to your resident through a fast delivery company.

Endeavor to listen to me carefully so that we can arrange and submit your final paper works and files holding your funds full release. The Insurance, Anti-Money Laundering/ Life Insurance fee and other governmental bills of your funds has been taken care off by the Compensation Scrutinize Head Office. So all we need now is your personal information and details for the registration of your ATM CARD with the Courier Company to ensure safe delivery and to also to proceed with the remittance of your unpaid compensation funds to you;

Full Name: ................
Address: ................
Home/Mobile Phone: ..............
Occupation: ..............
Age: ..............

Kindly provide the required data needed from you, so we can proceed with your Compensation Funds Payment to you. Meanwhile you're also entitle to an official invitation to the BOA Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, to visit the paying bank and personally collect/claim your cash sum of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars (US$5,500,000.00) after some due verification and clarification procedures. Alternatively, if you can't visit the paying bank to claim/collect your Funds, then your ATM card shall be delivered to you but at your own expenses.

So if you are seriously interested to claim and collect your over-due payment, then you're to contact your active FBI correspondent & directing Special Agent Officer with his official confidential contact details below; ensure that you adhere and comply with the simple directives from his office on how your Compensation Funds of US$5.5M can be delivered to you in peace.

FBI SPECIAL AGENT: MR MARK RUBEN
markruben_fbi@usa.com
agentmarkruben777@yandex.com

Congratulations towards your effort in making this transaction a success. If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the email maintenance restrictions implemented by the Internet Service Provider, we the (FBI) urge you to treat this genuinely and you are to keep this transaction strictly confidential till fund get to you to avoid matters arising or disqualification or termination of this transaction. NOTE: All funds have been moved to the FBI over here in Washington D.C and that is why we are contacting you directly from here. So if you have been contacting anyone or office about your fund and it's not coming through then you must put a FULL STOP to such communication henceforth because they have nothing or you. But if you are not contacting anyone then quickly claim your compensation funds through the FBI.

This office and your correspondent special agent will be looking forward to hear from you, and as soon as you receive this message and revert back positively we shall proceed with the immediate payment of your compensation funds avoiding delays.


Yours Reliable & Trustworthy;
(FBI)_Deputy Director; Mr. David Bowdich
Of The:
Monetary And Anti-Terrorist Crime Division____(FBI)
FBI HEAD-QUARTERS: J. Edgar Hoover Building 935
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C 20535-0001
United States Of America.

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