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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 Asher Wray <imf6965@gmail.com>
Reply-To: christopherwray77@aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:53:50 +0100
Subject: Attention

Attention:

Am writing to make you understand that this is FBI Director
Christopher Asher Wray i head has been informed about your refusal to
comply with the directives from the FBI and we are going ahead with
the arrest by today and tomorrow.

We monitored your contact with this co-men through our global tracking
device that detect all the incoming and outgoing e-mails and tele
phone calls globally from all the countries of the world, We have your
e-mail address under our monitoring device set-up any more e-mails to
the fraudsters from you will be automatically detected.

Our concern in this issue is for your name to be cleared from the
scammers list which has already been submitted to all the crimes
agencies in Kenya ,Benin, Germany,Canada ,London and United States Of
America, We make sure that the laws are followed to the core and this
is why the States of Arizona which its citizen carried out the
fraudulent activities with your information's which you sent to them
have to compensate you with the amount as regards the FBI Laws of
Sub-Section 05/16 Of the United Nations Anti-crimes laws.

We have in our file your details which you sent to them and we have
checked and found out that you are a honest and hard working person
and by this regards we decided to persuade the States of Arizona to
compensate you for the evil deeds that was carried out with your name.

The German man knows that you are the person because he was duped with
your identity and this fraudulent activities was carried out by the
same people who you have been forwarding your information's/details to
all this while with the pretense of dealing with the right offices in
United States and other countries of the world.

You will have to get the CLEARANCE FORM from the office of the High
Court of Justice in Arizona at the sum of $520 USA dollar This certificate
will enable you to get access to the compensation funds of $5,Million
USA dollar which was offered to you by the States of Arizona and don't forget
that you need to get the document within 1 days from now as you
already know the deadline given to you to secure the document.

If not for the fact that we checked your data before acting towards
this directives given to us, you would have been arrested by now and
jailed because of your association with criminals in the internet and
don't forget our warnings to you.

The German business man who was duped with your identity has reported
this case to the world court and it will involve the Government of
both countries which are Germany and Yours and that is the reason why
you must get this document immediately so as to avoid anybody calling
your name as being among the fraudsters.

With the Certificate, you are free from any form of crimes as your
data shows that you are a honest and respectable person in the
society, You will have to send the fees to the High Court of Justice
over there in Arizona within 1 day from now so that our local agent
can be able to apply our modalities with the High Court of Justice to
issue the CLEARANCE FORM to you.

Send the fees of $520 USA through our information.

Then,when all this requirements are in place, the Certificate will be
issued to you and then the compensation funds of $5,Million USA dollar
will
be transferred into your bank account immediately.

To avoid the wrath of the law on you and your entire family, we have
been pleased to allow you secure the document from the High Court of
Justice Arizona so that your name will be cleared off the fraudulent
list in Arizona and we also argued with the States of Arizona about
your compensations and that was the reason why you were compensated
with the sum of $5, million.

Thank you for your understanding this is our link click it now for
more information http://www.fbi.gov
Or this one.....
http://FBI.gov

Respectively
FBI Director Christopher Asher Wray.

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