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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: "Miss. Linda Lewis" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mislindalewis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:11:08 -0700
Subject: Attn:

Attention: Beneficiary.

Please if you're not interested in this please do not reply okay, if you're interested read with your understanding and get back to us if you're interested!

The Clearing House Association L.L.C. ("The Clearing House") respectfully submits this letter in the below captioned matters on the final payment release of your unblocked funds, through the Clearing House Inter-bank Payments System (CHIPS). Basically, this message is notifying you that your blocked funds, $12.5million, that has been in the coffers of the U.S Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) since April 2010 as blocked funds, has finally been unblocked and authorized for immediate wire transfer into your receiving bank account by the Clearing House Payment Company LLC in New York.

However, The Clearing House wishes to comment on the certified payment instruction from OFAC in your favour containing your personal and banking details. According to the file we have here, you assigned your financial representative and partner, Mr. Richard Salazar to proceed in receiving of the funds in your favour. Please kindly reconfirm this with an ""Authorization Letter"" signed by you, as this shall enable us proceed with your assignee, Richard Salazar. As soon as we hear from you, the funds release expedited processing will commence, which will make the funds be available in the yet unconfirmed account of your financial representative withing the nearest 72-hours.

We hope this letter is understood, if not, kindly go over the above captioned message again before responding, And If you have any questions as regards this matter, kindly reply me via ( mailoffice_officemail@yahoo.cn)

Thanks for your Co-Operation.

Sincerely,

Miss. Linda Lewis
The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C.
450 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
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