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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 Department" <info@hmtreasury.com>
Reply-To: <agentazlanhisham@ibibo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:19:08 +0800
Subject: Office of the HM Treasury. Read Carefully....

From Dr. Fabian Hamilton
Director (Payment Approval)
Office of the HM Treasury - The Correspondence & Enquiry Unit
1 Horse Guards Road,
London SW1A 2HQ United Kingdom.
 
 
Attention.
 
 
The HM Treasury Department of the Finance Ministry here in United Kingdom has investigated your fund, which has been on release/transfer process for some period of time.
 
During the third quarter of the general Financial Auditing, the International Monetary Fund Unit (IMF), has recovered your fund at the tune of £2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) which was to be paid to you immediately.
 
And It has been understood by our investigation team, that this fund was acquired by you as a result of the initial inheritance of funds, the sum of £2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds), which your partner was supposed to remit the fund into your bank account some past years, and you have not received the money due to the fact that the Revenue Service Department demanded for their Inland Revenue Tax.
 
After the auditing, United States of America Government International Funds Monetary Unit decides that the entire recovered and returned fund should be paid to their various owners within 8 days. This decision was taking by the Board of the auditors in the Department of Finance (Office of the Treasury), and at present the fund is in a security company right now for safe keeping.
 
The United Kingdom HM Treasury Finance Ministry has signed the released of your fund, and it has also decided that your fund should be released to you without any further delay. For your full identification and authorization of your payment, you are hereby advised to send your full information to our investigation Unit in Malaysia (Agent, Mr. Azlan Hisham Kadir, Legal Practitioner World Finance Corporation) as stated below:
 
NAME:
AGE:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
PHONE NUMBER:
FAX NUMBER:
EMAIL:
 
 
Note that the Department of Finance has ordered and assigned our accredited investigation Unit in Malaysia (Mr. Azlan Hisham Kadir, Legal Practitioner) to carry out this payment to you, and therefore you should urgently contact him on the following details.
 
CONTACT PERSON
 
CONTACT PERSON: MR. AZLAN HISHAM KADIR
POSITION: UN, PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR(Legal Practitioner)
PHONE: +60108454526
E-mail: agentazlanhisham@ibibo.com 
PAYOUT AMOUNT: GBP£2,500,000.00
IN WORDS: TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLING
 
Please contact the above person and request them to give you more information on the means which you will receive your fund. As soon as our accredited investigation agent has confirmed to us that you have contacted them, the Department of Finance will proceed to hand over your fund to accredited investigation agent and request them to commence your payment with immediate effect.
 
 
Waiting for your reply for further proceedings.
 
Regards,
The Correspondence & Enquiry Unit
HM Treasury.

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