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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: "Rev. Dr. George Matins" <rev.emeka.mike2@w.cn>
Reply-To: rev.emeka.mike0@w.cn
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:40:19 -0500
Subject: Attn:Dear Payment Beneficiary,12/08/2011

From The Desk Of: Rev. Dr. George Emeka Matins
Head Unit, Pay-Master General On Foreign Debts
Payment Disbursement & Funds Reconciliation
Legal Office Of The Internal Revenue Service,
Federal Tax Quarters Regional Department,
London Head Quarters, United Kingdom.
E-mail:rev.emeka.mike0@w.cn

Re: Irrevocable Release & Delivery Of Your Approved
Inheritance Part-Payment Fund Valued At $1,700,000.00 USD.

Attn: Dear Payment Beneficiary,


Congratulation! This is to bring to your urgent attention that the Treasury
office of the Department of Revenue Service London here in United Kingdom, has
today investigated your fund which has been on transfer process with the
previous offices or person(s) you have been dealing with concerning the
release of your long overdue entitled payment inheritance for some period of
time of which all the attempts made by you to receive the money all failed as
a result of one problem or another which has also made you not to have
received your funds till date. During the just concluded of the general
Financial Foreign Debts Payment Auditing of all yet unpaid abandoned,
with-held, delayed payments owed to various beneficiaries including yours that
has not been paid to their due owners has been channel to our Treasury Office
here, and the office of the auditing and fund recovery unit has recovered your
fund to the tune of USD$1,700,000.00, which was to be paid to you through cash
payment special delivery means bank-to-b

After the auditing today, the Treasury Department decides that all recovered
and returned yet unpaid foreign inheritance debts, lotto winnings, next of kin
payment, etc should be paid to their various beneficiaries within "14" days
starting from today, because this is the December 2011 Last Quarter Payment of
he year, which is the major reason why you must process the delivery/release
of your fund as you have been directed to avoid you losing your whole payment
out rightly once we close for the year 2011. This decision was taking by the
Board of the Auditors and the External Affairs in the Department of Revenue
Service London (Office of the Treasury), and at present your fund is been
package inside the "2" escrow metallic silver consignment sealed trunk boxes
under the care of this institute here in London, till the 2 consignment box
are been process legally by you as the bonafide beneficiary of the consignment
boxes, which is where your total (One Million Seven Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) approv

It has been understood by our investigation team, that this fund was acquired
by you as a result of the initial inheritance of fund, which an agent in
London was supposed to have remitted the fund into your bank account some time
ago but failed, although you have not yet received the fund till this very
moment due to the fact that the Revenue Service Department and some other
finance entities requested for some payment, including the Inland Revenue Tax
before you can be qualified and able to process or receive your funds, so get
back to me as a matter of urgency because your consignment/payment has already
been scheduled to leave London by tomorrow evening and will be arriving your
country the following day with your "2" escrow metallic silver consignment
sealed trunk boxes but before the Custom Officers working in your country at
the International Airport will mandatory request you or the hired delivery
specialist agent to either CLEAR the consignment boxes, by paying required
official cost to the custom at

The Department of Revenue Service London has today signed your fund "FUND
RELEASE BOND APPROVAL CONFIRMATION LETTER" in your name/favor and it has also
been decided fully between the board of trustee that your funds should be paid
out to you without any further delays once you are able to make available the
required "Airport Consignment/Cargo Landing Custom Clearing Charges Fee" which
is the reason why you must get back to us of the availability of the fee with
you and confirmed ready before the general management of this noble
organization can allowed or approved the hired Delivery Specialist Agent to
leave the shore of this country or noble office for the final delivery of your
consignment to your choice of delivery request. So get back to me immediately
you receive this urgent mail update for your full identification and
completion of your payment to you hitch free, to avoid any lost of your sealed
funds inside the consignment trunk boxes, on this note, you are hereby advised
to send to us your full infor

To avoid us delivering or paying to the wrong beneficiary as the owner of this
claim, kindly re-confirm the following info to us urgently: (1) Your Full
Name.....(2) Your Full Contact Office/Residential Address....(3) Your Office
Phone/Fax Numbers.....(4) Your Position Held At Work (5) Sex/Age.....(6) Your
Scanned Passport ID.....(7) The Amount You Are Expecting To Receive.....(8)
The Country Where Your Payment Is Coming From.....(9). Your Emergency\private
Mobile Number.

Once again, be advised that the above requested information's must be
submitted to this office latest by 4:00PM tomorrow British time, so ensure you
give me a call on my direct private number as follows: +4470240616816 (or)
+447924524836, upon receipt of this important notice so that i can give you
more information on the means which you will receive your fund, this is why
you must get back to me right away to enable you finalize with him.

BENEFICIARY RIGHT & DUE RESPONSIBILITY TO CARE OF:-

NB: PLEASE BE INFORMED IN ADVANCE THAT UPON YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS MAIL AND
READINESS TO RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT, YOU WILL BE THE ONE RESPONSIBLE TO TAKE
CARE OF THE LITTLE CHARGES FEE THAT WILL BE REQUIRED BY THE CUSTOM AUTHORITY
AS A LEGAL CHARGES FOR THE CLEARING OF YOUR "2" CONSIGNMENT ALREADY SEALED
TRUNK BOX, BECAUSE EVERY BENEFICIARY ARE THE PEOPLE PAYING FOR THE CLEARING
CHARGES OF THEIR CONSIGNMENT CLEARING WHICH IS YOUR OWN PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY AND NOT THIS ORGANIZATION OR MINE, SO NOTE THIS POINT VERY
CLEARLY TO AVOID YOU OR I MIS-UNDERSTAND OURSELVES BY THE TIME THE CLEARING
FEE WILL BE NEEDED FROM YOU TO ENABLE THE HIRED DELIVERY SPECIALIST AGENT
CLEAR YOUR "2" CONSIGNMENT BOXES WITHOUT YOUR COUNTRY AUTHORITIES CONFISCATING
THE TRUNK BOXES SO THAT YOU DON'T LOSE YOUR PAYMENT OUT-RIGHTLY BECAUSE OF YOU
NOT PAYING FOR THE CLEARING CHARGES FEE THAT WILL BE REQUIRED FROM YOU, SINCE
THE COST IS WITHIN YOUR LIMIT AND VERY AFFORDABLE ALSO.

We look forward to your purposeful co-operation, and an urgent phone call from
you and ensure you also re-confirm the details to avoid further delays of your
payment getting to you latest by tomorrow as planed, this is why we are fully
committed to serving you better as expected, while we do our job as required
by the law and policy here.

Congratulation Once Again!
Best Regards,

Rev. Dr. George Matins,
Head Unit Pay-Master General (IRS).
Tel: +4470240616816 (or) +447924524836.

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