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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: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:52:50 -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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