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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 Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <m0fficedatafile32@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:08:45 +0100
Subject: Very Urgent Message To You


FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
601 4th Street NW Washington, DC 20535

Attn:

This is to officially inform you it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System you are communicating with wrong officials
of the Bank Claiming to be the CEO HSBC Bank UK,CEO OF Barclays UK,NON-official of Bank of America, China Construction Bank Corporation, China Bank, Japan Bank,ABSA Bank, Standard Bank, Nedbank,
Agricultural Bank of China,China,Wells Fargo,US, PMorga Chase, US,Wells Fargo, US,HSBC Holdings UK,Royal Bank of Canada Commonwealth Bank Australia, ICBC China, Bank of China, Mitsubishi UFJ
Financial Group, BNP Paribas,Cr?ditAgricole,Citigroup,Deutsche Bank and Commercial Bank of China. Also wrong official claiming to be the Secretary General of the United Nation Antonio Guterres,formal FBI Director James B. Comey, formal FIFA President.

During our Investigation,we noticed that the reason why you have not received your lottery payments, Contract/Inheritance Payments is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obl the Federal
Ministry of Finance on your Behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total($46,000,000.00 USD) Forty Six Million Dollars.

The World Bank, FBI and Paris Club introduced this lottery payment arrangement as to enable our lottery payment, contractors/inheritance beneficiary to receive their payment without any problems.
all delayed winnings/contract and inheritance, funds will be immediately released into designated bank account of the beneficiary in your country without further delay since We was at the beginning
of the economical year 20 March 2020 to 2021 which is now due to be released since the said fund belonged to you.


We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences that this may have caused during our ongoing investigation on the reason for delay, however we have made contact with the
Reserve Bank Of U.S.A to handle the Final Release of your fund into your account.The bank of England Director (Mr. Spencer Dale and Dr S. Bernanke from America Federal Reserve Bank New York) also
sounded a very serious warning and issued the last instructions/order to the revenue Service Department England to quickly release all funds placed on hold which is either in an escrow account or
vaults of any bank respectively to the sole beneficiaries. You now have the lawful right to claim your funds.

All I want you to do is to contact the ATM Card Center Via email or call the office telephone number one of the Consultant will assist you for their requirements to proceed and procure your Fund
Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $200 Dollars only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction. Since the FBI is involved
in this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens, UK Citizes, European Citizens, Asian Citizen.Contact the ATM Card Centre
Via email or call the office telephone number one of the Consultant will assist you for their requirements to proceed.Contact Mr.Mike Pompeo Via Email ( m0fficedatafile32@gmail.com )

CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: Mr.Mike Pompeo
EMAIL: m0fficedatafile32@gmail.com

Do contact Mr.Mike Pompeo of the ATM Card in-charge with your details:

FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:

So your files would be updated after which she will send the payment information which you'll use in making the payment of $200 Dollars via Steam Wallet Card or Nordstrom Card for the procurement
of your Funds Approval Slip after which the Delivery of your ATM Card will be affected to your designated home Address without any further delay and the Bank will transfer your funds in total
($46,000,000.00 USD) Forty Six Million Dollars to your Bank account.Mr.Mike Pompeo will reply you with the secret code (1600 ATM CARD). We advice you get back to the payment office after you have

contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so 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.
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray
Director Since August 2, 2017 - Present

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in Possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advised
only to be in contact with Mr.Mike Pompeo of the ATM CARD Center 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 we could act upon and commence investigation

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