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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: "Mr. Charles Joseph Bonaparte" <office@mypanel.biz>
Reply-To: <brianpet3rson@yandex.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 19:46:38 -0700
Subject: ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION


ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.


Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI)
Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the chairman of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). in alliance with the economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) with the head Office . We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Western part of Africa With the help of the United States Government and the United Nations.

We have been able to track down so many of these scam artists in various parts of west African countries which includes (NIGERIA, REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA CAMEROON AND SENEGAL, SOUTH AFRICA).

We have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. The United Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State Government have ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among 100 Lucky people around the globe.

This email is being directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk in our custody here and with the information gartered from this Scam artist, we notice that you have been scammed of so much money and have decided to compensate you with a little token to recover the lost of your fund. You are therefore being compensated with the total sum of $1.5 Million Dollars. We have also arrested all those who claim that they are barristers, bank officials, Lottery Agents who have money for transfer or want you to be the next of kin of such funds which does not exist.

Since your name appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation of US$1.5 Million, we have made arrangement to register an Online Banking through our Global Bank, where you will have full access to your Online Banking Account Fund, to transfer your fund personally to your Private Bank Account with no complication of things or questioning as the Account will be fully registered in your Name.

Feel free to contact the processing officer MR BRIAN PETERSON. The online Banking Processing is made much easier for you to transfer your funds to your private Bank Account personally, to avoid any delay or complication of things. With this Online Banking Transfer Processing, you can only transfer the Maximum Amount of US$500.000.00 daily/install mentally until the total amount of your Compensated/deposited fund is transferred and completely paid to you.

So you are advised to contact processing officer MR BRIAN PETERSON with your provided information required for verification below.

CONTACT PERSON: MR BRIAN PETERSON
CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: brianpet3rson@yandex.com

Provide the information below to enable the processing of your Online Banking Account for deposition of your total compensation fund.

1) YOUR FULL NAME.
2) YOUR ADDRESS.
3)YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4) YOUR OCCUPATIaON
5) YOUR IDENTITY.
6) COUNTRY

Contact MR BRIAN PETERSON with the information required for verification to enable him start the processing of your Online Banking Account Registration.

We guarantee your safety and wish you the best of luck.

Best Regard,
Mr. Charles Joseph Bonaparte
Federal Bureau of Investigation

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CONFIDENTIALITY

This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named herein. Any attachment transmitted with this email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this email is addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system or please notify the system manager. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and in the event of any unauthorized disclosure, copying and/or distribution of the contents the generating entity and/or the sender reserves the right to take any action against such unauthorized use in law, equity or otherwise.
The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The sender accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email, delays, data corruption, unauthorized access or unauthorized amendments.

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