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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: HM Treasury <hmtreasury.gov@britain.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:29:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FILE CODE - HM/IMF/7890/121


 

HM Treasury's Correspondence and Enquiry Unit

From The Office of Rt Hon George Osborne MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer
HM Treasury
Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ
Tel: +44-077 0003 6878
Fax: +44-020 7270 4861
 
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
 
Our Ref: UK/TREAS/898ATCP
Your ref: HM/IMF/7890/121
 
 
                                       INTERNATIONAL COMPENSATION ON FOREIGN PAYMENT (FILE CODE - HM/IMF/7890/121).
 HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury,
informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department
responsible for developing and executing the British government's
public finance policy and economic policy. The Treasury maintains the
Combined Online Information System (COINS) containing a detailed
analysis of departmental spending under thousands of category headings.

We have taken time to review your online email communication
messages on your unsuccessful transactions with most international lottery/contract award winning organizations, and
other foreign banks. We wish to let you know that we have
communicated with most of these foreign banking institutions that withheld most
international payments to individual accounts so as to find out why
these funds were withheld, the source of the funds and a final solution
to this problem. Although you are reading from us for the first time,
we have been working very hard to resolve this issue and making progress on our
research on why international banks has failed to completely credit
funds to international owners/beneficiaries account even after the funds are approved for payment.

 
Conclusively, we discovered that most withheld and/or
unpaid funds which originated
from lottery organizations, international trading company's awarded
contract funds and deceased personals where not properly filed for
international fund payment to its beneficiary account by the fund
beneficiary approved to receive such funds.
 
Such transfer suspension was placed on these funds because
majority of these international fund remittance/transfer of over the
total sum of $500,000 and above to private European/Non European
residence accounts abroad, usually carried out by foreign Banks,
Private or Commercial Courier Companies were never properly recorded by
the paying institution for future file reference/assessment by the
International Monetary Fund and the Financial Services Authority.
 
In joint alliance with the European
Financial Service Commission & the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) to resolve this issue, we wish to let you know that we have been
approved to release only the total sum of Three Million Great British
Pounds Sterling (3,000,000.00 GBP =  4,704,406.46 USD) to enable
you start up your own business.

 
In response to this decision, we got the International Finance Auditors to
apply backward in time so that you can use the violation of the
existing law to get your approved funds on time. We were able to gain an approval
authorization letter from the Court Service which stated
that these funds will be released to its beneficiary's account on proper confirmation of
its claim.


You need to properly apply for your awarded fund payment by sending us your
personal information below along with a scanned copy of your
international passport or drivers license so that we will forward it
for verification and payment.
 





PERSONAL DETAILS;


ANSWERS;




1. Your Full Name, Nationality & Current Location.








2. Your Age & Current Occupation.








3. Your Phone & Fax Number.








4.  Your ID Number (or Attach Identification Documents).









 
By the virtue of the provision of the law which confer on us
powers to advocate, adjudicate suspend and authorize an immediate
transfer of your funds internationally, we hereby state emphatically
and without prejudice that should there be any information that may
succeed your application for unclaimed awarded fund release that are
currently deposited in most foreign banks in Europe, Asia and in
Africa, please do not hesitate to provide us the information so that we
will know how to help you receive your funds.
 
Important Notice: Your inability to make this clarification
for fund transfer will continue to suspend your chances of receiving
any international fund payment directed to your local bank account from
any existing foreign bank until this clarification is made.
 
Failure to properly apply for the fund release will nullify your
chances of receiving your unpaid international funds, and these funds
will be confiscated and made to be forfeited under the Money Laundering
and Other Financial Crime Prohibition Act of 2003.

 For inquiries;
Post: HM Treasury. Horse Guards Road London SW1A 2HQ.
Call:  +44-(77) 0003 6878

Email: ( Click here to eMail )


My Profile:( Click here )
 
 
Regards,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Rt Hon George Osborne MP (Conservative)
HM Treasury's Correspondence and Enquiry Unit.
============================================
Questions about this information should be directed to
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Telephone: +44-77 0003 6878. or | By eMail |

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