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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: "WWW.JUSTICE.GOV" <www.@yacht.ocn.ne.jp >
Reply-To: "WWW.JUSTICE.GOV" <attorneygeneral280@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 10:20:55 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention,

U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Attention,

We continues to receive reports of individuals' e-mail or social networking accounts being compromised and used in a social engineering scam to swindle consumers out of thousands of dollars. Portraying to be the victim, the hacker uses the victim's account to send a notice to their contacts. The notice claims the victim is in immediate need of money due to being robbed of their credit cards, passport, money, and cell phone; leaving them stranded in London or some other location. Some claim they only have a few days to pay their hotel bill and promise to reimburse upon their return home. A sense of urgency to help their friend/contact may cause the recipient to fail to validate the claim, increasing the likelihood of them falling for this scam.

We always advice our citizen to ask the bank or any organization that will be deliver their money to take away all the charges from the amount and transfer the rest to the beneficiary account, but African Union, especially Nigeria Government has abolish this condition, they complained that they received several complains from our citizens concerning the ways the Bank use the process of deducting the transfer charges to steal or divert their fund to another account, so their Government has passed it as a law that all beneficiary fund that has being approved to be transfer to the owner should be seal not to be deducted by the bank to avoid bank defaulting the beneficiary fund, so in this case the beneficiary will be required to use his own money to facilitate the transfer to his or her bank.


In this case again, we discover that those corrupt officials use such way to extort illegal and unconstitutional fee from the beneficiary and some time living the beneficiary broke in the process of trying to get his fund, During our investigation we discovered your dealings with some people in respect of your over due inheritance fund which was in your name, we also discovered that all your attempt to receive your fund has ended in a rock with different stories, we want you to know that this fund was legally belong to you and you have every right to receive it but the problem you have is that you fail into the wrong people. All this problem is bordering our Government and that prompted President Donald Trump to summoned the African leaders, EU members, UN Secretary General, FBI Director, CIA, World Bank and other financial institution, including the International Monetary fund IMF in just concluded United Nation General Assembly to bring out the lasting solution to this problem that will benefit our citizens.


We have a good news for you and your problem will be over, since the African Union and Nigeria has abolish the condition of deducting fee from the beneficiary fund, claiming that they receive several complainant from the beneficiaries over the way the Bank and other government agents use the process of deducting the transfer charges,clearance and Tax to steal their fund and some time present their partners to claim or divert their fund to another account, so their Government has passed it as a law that all beneficiary fund that has being approved to be transfer to the owner should be seal not to be deducted by the bank to avoid bank defaulting the beneficiary fund. After our meeting with the Nigeria Central Bank Governor and other financial institutions and the Law Enforcement Agencies from UK and Asia and Africa , We have come out with two alternative way to receive your over due payment without you falling into the wrong hand again, but in order to achieve your aim, you must keep all your communication very secret, because if those fraudsters discover that you are now with the real people they will start to send you all kind of fraudulent emails in order to distraction your attention from the rightful people so that you will not receive your fund to enable them have access to continue their evil plans against you, be warned.
The options are:

1) First option is you are required to open a Domiciliary account with the approve bank with your name, then your fund will be transfer to your domiciliary account with the bank, then the bank will wire transfer the fund from your domiciliary account with their bank direct into your current bank here or any other account of your choice and you will not be required to pay any fee for the transfer, since the two account bears your name, the only fee you are to pay in this method is just the $200 they will use to set up the domiciliary account with your name before transferring your fund in there since they they don't have a way to deduct fee from your fund as I stated above.

2) Second option, you can open a Domiciliary account that will come with approved Global ATM Smart Card, under this method they will transfer the fund into your new Domiciliary account with them, and send the Global Atm card to you for you to use to be withdrawing money any place you are in Wold wide, under this account they can as well wire transfer the fund from your domiciliary account with their bank direct into your current bank here or any other account of your choice and you will not be required to pay any fee for the transfer, since the two account bears your name, the only required fee in this method is the $200 account opening fee, $95 delivery fee of the Global ATM CARD to you if you desire, totaling $295, the different between this two is that the first account don't come with Global ATM CARD, while this does.


This is the only requirement from you, you will not be required to pay for any charges, tax or clearance of any such apart from this above payment we mentioned, hence the accounts bears your name and it it is Electronic transfer, report any body or organization that request any additional fee apart from this above mention fee to our office for an immediate arrest and prosecution. In order to receive your fund, you are required to contact Dr. Mike Ugonabor, the new Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America ATM Payment Department, on his direct Telephone line: +1 425-296-2314 or contact him on his alternative email at: attorneygeneral280@yahoo.com

choose the best option you wish to receive your fund and send your information's and the fee to open the account with your name and transfer your fund to you, he is the only tested and approved person assigned to handle this payment, you are required to follow his advice and directive to avoid delay in releasing your payment because we were made to understand that your payment file has been moved to his office for processing and verification. You are not required to pay any money for clearance apart from the account opening fee as required by the Bank, feel free to report any problem to this office, as we will monitor all the process to ensure that your interest is highly protected, for urgent information, contact us at this bellow email or call us or live a voice message to our phone and we will get back to you.

FROM..............................................
U.S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WWW.JUSTICE.GOV

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