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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: FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.<ccm@pmremr.com>
Reply-To: Billyawagers@yahoo.com
Date: 17 Mar 2020 13:07:17 +0800
Subject: URGENT REPLY!!

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

Attention: Beneficiary

This is the final warning you are going to receive from me, do you get
me? I hope you understand how many times this message has been sent to
you.

We would also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working
for so that they could get you fired until we are through with our
investigations because a suspect is not supposed to be working for the
government or any private organization.

Your ID which we have in our database have been sent to all the crimes
agencies in America for them to inset you in their website as an
internet fraudsters and to warn people from having any deals with you.
This would have been solved all this while if you had gotten the
CERTIFICATE ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you were instructed in the e-mail
below. This is the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) am writing in
response to the e-mail you sent to us and am using this medium to
inform you that there is no more time left to waste because you have
been given a mandate. As stated earlier to have the document endorsed,
signed and stamped without failure and you must adhere to this
directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have
arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties will be
seized and bank account will be confiscated too.

You failed to comply with our directives/instruction and that was the
reason why we didn’t hear from you, as our director has already been
notified about you get the process completed yesterday and right now
the WARRANT OF ARREST has been signed against you and it will be
carried out in the next 48hours as strictly signed by the FBI
director. We have investigated and found out that you didn’t have any
idea when the fraudulent deal was committed with your
information’s/identity and right now your ID is placed on our website
as a wanted person, I believe you know that it will be a shame to you
and your entire family because after then it will be announce in all
the local channels that you are wanted by the FBI.

As a good Christian and a Honest man, I decided to see how i could be
of help to you because i would not be happy to see you end up in jail
and all your properties confiscated all because your information’s was
used to carry out a fraudulent transactions, i called the EFCC and
they directed me to a private attorney who can help you get the
process done and he stated that he will endorse and stamp the document
at the sum of $225 usd only and i believe this process is cheaper for
you.

You need to do every possible thing today and tomorrow to get this
process done because our director has called to inform me that the
warrant of arrest has been signed against you and once it has been
approved, then the arrest will be carried out, and from our
investigations we learnt that you were the person that forwarded your
identity to one impostor/fraudsters in Nigeria when he had a deal with
you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account
which is valued at the sum of $10,500,000.00 only.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till
03/31/2020 so that you could get this process done because i learnt
that several e-mails has been sent to you without getting a response
from you. Bear it in mind that this is the only way that i can be able
to help you at this moment or you would have to face the law and its
consequences once it had befallen on you.

Send the payment details to me as stated above and make sure that you
didn’t hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today so that
they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped
immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been
carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the
transfer of your compensation funds which is valued at the sum of
$10.500,000.00 usd which was supposed to have been transferred to you
all this while.

Note: All the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and
we shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You
are given a grace today to make the payment for the document after
which your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and
finally you will be appearing in court for act of terrorism, money
laundering and drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try
anything funny because you are been watched.
Mr Billy A Wagers is in charge of your case so you can contact him.

Expecting your anticipated- Co-operation.

Yours in service,

Christopher A. Wray

FBI DIRECTOR

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