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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: UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT <backup@lan.cocamar>
Reply-To: <timothyjmayopoulos002@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:56:35 +0000
Subject: UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT!!!

UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT

The Financial Management Service, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury wishes to officially notify you once again of your status via your email address as previously sent official letter to your home address mailbox was returned undelivered. This is to notify you about unclaimed Funds that has recently been authorized by the United States President, Conference Meetings has been held more than 5 times on how to repay people of there unclaimed funds by Inheritance,Contract, lottery, assets and properties until final conclusion last week Monday, whereby the President has personally authorize an official Company Organization to handle this transaction personally and to make sure beneficiary must reach terms and agreement before the funds can be Released to the rightful beneficiary for little below $8.5 Million USD.

Several companies, or locator services, engaged in the business of identifying and recovering unclaimed assets for profit, acquire federal check issuance data from FMS and various federal government agencies under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. The information requested by these companies pertains to specific check symbols, numbers and dollar amounts identified on Treasury check cancellation listings compiled by FMS. These listings are not searchable by personal identifiers, such as a person's name or social security number. Personal identifiers may, however, exist in federal agencies' check issuance or cancellation records. Using such personal identifiers, if available, these locator services attempt to locate the prospective beneficiaries, or "payees," for canceled/unpaid government checks and, on their behalf, attempt to collect the payment amounts from the federal agencies that originally certified the payments. It is important to note that these firms are also involved in recovering u

Organization Name: Boost Allowance Financial Support
Name: Timothy J. Mayopoulos
Email address: timothyjmayopoulos002@gmail.com
Phone number: 1 469-300-7225

There is a reminder I need you to have in mind that there is payment called a "finders" fee, Remember without this fees there is nothing I can do to assist you to get you what rightfully belongs to you ASAP.

UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220

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