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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: Uk Debt Management Office London <ukdebt.co.uk1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:39:51 +0000
Subject: Commissioner for the Reduction of the National Debt

Commissioner for the Reduction of the National Debt
UK Debt Management Office.
Eastcheap Court
11 Philpot Lane
London
EC3M 8UD

Attention: Leonard Lim

As you must be aware, I am the Controller General for the Reduction of the
National Debt in the United Kingdom. I am writing you with regards to your
stalled funds transfer you have been expecting from the U.K and its allied
member countries. For your interest, I would urge you to accord this
correspondence your full indulgence and attention, as you may likely have
been receiving other emails of similar contents from the numerous fraud
syndicate and impostors. The authenticity and difference would be evident in
a moment.

I was specially instructed by the Office of the Prime Minister to embark on
a personal review of all long pending and stalled International Transfer
Files of all Banks Operating in the United Kingdom, including those at our
Offshore Foreign Correspondent Banks, with a view of redeeming genuine cases
of Transfers, and consigning others as bad debt in the Federal Budget.The
office of the Prime Minister has mandated me to ensure that all genuine
claim and transfers are paid in the first quater of 2010.

The Government of the U.K took this major step in addressing these problems
of all stalled transfers as a result of the global financial crisis that has
affected banks by establishing an autonomous National Debt Management Office
(NDMO) to take over payment responsibility on behalf of all banks operating
in the UK.

The creation of the NDMO consolidates debt management functions as a result
of the global financial melt-down for ensuring proper coordination of all
payments emanating for the U.K. The NDMO centralizes and coordinates the
country's debt recording and management activities, including debt service
forecasts; transfers payments; and advising on debt negotiations as well as
new borrowings.

It also provides for the establishment of a supervisory board that has
oversight functions on all banks operating in the UK as well as endorsement
of strategic thrusts and policies for the organization, consistent with the
broad policy objectives of government. Your transfer file came to my
attention just this morning, and I was compelled to take special interest in
your transfer because of its peculiar history of procedural inconsistencies
and unauthorized payment approval documents that are contained in your
file.Obviously all the persons you assigned to process your transfer have
proved to be fraudulent and incompetent.

Simply put it that some management of the Bank have tried unsuccessfully to
smuggle your transfer through a non-existent back door, while impersonating
the offices of various government departments before you, and feeding you
with forged transferred document.
Consequently, I have this morning ordered the heads of all the relevant
Government Departments genuinely involved in the foreign transfer protocol,
including the Treasury Department, and the Bank to suspend all further
action on your transfer pending conclusion of my personal investigation into
the actual reasons why your transfer has failed to date. Official memos have
been issued to the relevant departments.

However, preliminary evidence shows clearly that these fraudulent persons
you have assigned to help you process your transfer have been extorting
monies from you through concocted excuses and lies, only for them to divert
the monies colleted from you to their private pockets and return back to
demand more monies from you endlessly.Please you should not allow yourself
to be deceived and extorted anymore. As the Controller General for the
Reduction of the National Debt in the United Kingdom, I want to assure you
that your transfer will now be processed through the simple, transparent and
authoritative means where you will not be required to pay any unauthorized
fees.

Please discontinue any form of contact with all those you have been dealing
with before now, no matter the nature of your relationship with any of these
crooks, including your local attorney. My intention is to quickly reactivate
and sort out your transfer without any distraction. So you are forbidden to
preempt anyone of this contact, otherwise I will be compelled to out rightly
cancel your transfer along others a bad debt. I attach my working Id Card
for your record.

Reply immediately to acknowledge this advice, and I will instruct you
further.
Regards,

Mrs. Jo Whelan.
Commissioner for the Reduction of the National Debt
UK Debt Management Office.

Disclaimer ***** This email and any attachment may contain confidential
information. If you are not the intended recipient because it was sent to
you in error,you are not authorized to reply,copy or disclose all or any
part of it without the prior written consent of Commissioner for the
Reduction of the National Debt UK Debt Management Office

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