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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: "TREASURY BILL DEPARTMENT USA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <treasurybilldept@citromail.hu>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 07:57:34 -0700
Subject: CLAIMED YOUR $27.9M FUNDS CALL MR STEVE MNUCHIN ON +1-206 629-2851

Attn:

This is to humbly informed you that your funds has been approved for transfer into your bank account,after much verification with the United Nation that you are among the scam victim some few months ago we find out that your outstanding due payment was been withheld for long ,now that the fund have been approved i will advise you to be serious and claimed your fund once and for all.

And the only fee needed now from you is  $26,950 to pay the mentioned document for the transfer of your $27.9m and to get all legal documents signed and pay all international subsidiaries fees and IMF,immediately all this legal fee is paid the  transfer will reflect in your bank account without any delays.

Take note that the said fee  $26,950 must be paid by you first before the transfer is done,and the fee is to use and pay all international subsidiaries including the IMF,CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER and CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and ETC, if this fee is paid and all international fee is cleared the transferred will be successful.

As soon as we hear from you I will give you payment information of the office issuing those documents mentioned above on how to send the  $26,950 across through the banker to bank transfer .

Note:Upon receipt of this mail you have 48 hours to send the said fees to procured the document to avoid final confiscation of the funds so you have to respond quickly to advise you with the information's to send it to,

Email:treasurybilldept@citromail.hu
Tel:+1-206 629-2851

Mr Steven Mnuchin
Treasury Building 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C., U.S

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