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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: "Christopher A. Wray" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michealeric100@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 01:04:35 +0100
Subject: CONTACT MR. MICHEAL ERIC NOW!!!


Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Telephone: +133 1234 7273


Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, Dr.
Philip Mogan, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Barr. Derrick Smith, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Larry Christopher, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen, Dr. Philip Mogan, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation.

During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in
respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.

Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total USD
$15,000.000.00 in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States
Dollars daily.

You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction and you have to be rest
assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens.

All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTRE OFFICE via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost
you $390.00 only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction.

CONTACT INFORMATION.

Agent Name: Mr. Micheal Eric
Email: michealeric100@hotmail.com
Telephone Number: ( +234 816 471 7431 )

Do contact Mr. Micheal Eric of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details:

Full Name:
Home Address:
Sex/Age:
Telephone Number:
Current occupation:
A copy of your driver license or Passport.

Your files would be updated after which he will send the payment information’s which you’ll use in making payment of $390.00 via Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay.

We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so that we can move on with our Investigation and
make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

Christopher A. Wray
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Department of Justice Washington, D.C 20535

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Mr.
Micheal Eric of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this
office so that we could act upon and commence investigation.

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