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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: "Agent MARK RUBEN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <2358511826@qq.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:23:35 +0900
Subject: FBI - Department of Justice

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
(FBI) DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence  
Monetary Remittance & Crime Division.
 
 
    Greetings from FBI,
 
I am Special Agent Mr  MARK RUBEN at the International Monetary Remittance & Crime Division (FBI). It will please you to know that I've been assigned by the UNITED NATIONS (UN) General Assembly Directorates to monitor the safe and risk-free payment of your benefited Compensation Fund, awarded and paid to you by the U.N due to your email address and data was randomly selected among a group of email addresses database recovered from some Cyber Criminals who were recently arrested by the FBI during the crack down on corruptions.
 
It was notice that majority of the recovered email addresses are bankruptcy and scammed victims. So, in order to help them redeem their lost and enhance them efficiently the UNITED NATIONS General Assembly decided to compensate few arbitrary owners of those emails, which you are lucky to be among the few arbitrary lucky beneficiaries. Nevertheless, if you are not a victim of bankruptcy nor cyber theft, you are still allowed to claim and collect your Compensation Fund because you're a U.N lucky beneficiary selected to be Compensated and Financially enhanced efficiently due to your good citizenship record.
 
This to apprise you that the total sum of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($5,500,000.00) has been approved for payment to you, this amount is verified clean and has been processed for payment in your name by the FUND REMITTANCE UNIT. All 2019 beneficiaries payment including yours are deposited into different account in HSBC Bank, New York City. IN RESPECT TO THIS PROGRESS, your $5,500,000.00 can be paid to you via the listed available means of payment  (1) an HSBC ATM DEBIT MASTER CARD capable of withdrawing out the maximum sum of US$10,000 per day.
(2) via CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT  (3)  cash delivery in a SECURITY SUITCASE. This are the four available means whereby we can easily pay your Compensation Fund worth the sum of (US$5.5M) to you anywhere in the world. So kindly select a payment method and indicate it to us when replying back to this official letter. Read carefully so you can understand how your $5.5 million can be claimed and select your preferred remittance method, so that we can arrange and submit your final paperworks holding your fund complete full release to you.
 
NOTE: The $5.5 million donor U.N General Assembly directorates have settled all tax and charges implemented on your Compensation remittance, such as Delivery cost, Insurance and Anti-Money Laundering/Anti-Terrorism. So all we need now is your personal information and details to proceed with the Outward payment of your (US$5.5M) to you without delay.
 
Beneficiary Full Name:
Residential Address:
Home/Mobile Phone:
Occupation:
Age:
Preferred Means of Payment From Above List;
 
Kindly provide the required datas needed from you, so we can proceed with your benefited Compensation Fund Successful Payment to you. NOTWITHSTANDING,  HSBC Bank which is the paying bank, made it mandatory that you acquire their CLAIM AFFIDAVIT paperwork which will cost you the sum of Four Hundred and Ninety Five U.S Dollars only ($495).  Some HSBC BANK senior staffs will handle the home delivery of your Fund remittance and not by any courier company. Therefore, the CLAIM AFFIDAVIT certificate which will be forwarded to you before their arrival will serve as a genuine proof to the HSBC staffs that you're the legitimate beneficiary upon their arrival at your resident. Endeavour to listen carefully and adhere/comply towards acquiring your Claim Affidavit certificate immediately because you must have it before your $5.5 million can reach you.
 
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. NOTICE: All Winning/Lottery or Compensation Fund have been directed and moved to the FBI-HEADQUARTER, that is why we are contacting you directly from here. So if you may have been contacting anyone or office about any sort of Fund, you must put a FULL-STOP to such communication/transaction henceforth because it's illegal due to you're ignorantly supporting cyber crime. But if you are not contacting anyone then quickly claim your compensation fund today from here. We're looking forward to hear from you shortly, and as soon as you revert back positively we shall proceed with the immediate payment/remittance of your compensation fund to you without taking much time.
 
 
Yours Sincerely In Service;
(FBI)_Special Agent:  MARK RUBEN
Monetary Remittance And Crime Division.
HEADQUARTER:  J. Edgar Hoover Building 935
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C 20535-0001
United States Of America.

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