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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: "U S TREASURY DEPARTMENT" <Info@ustreasury.com>
Reply-To: usdeparttmenttreasury@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 04:59:54 -0400
Subject: RE: PAYMENT APPROVAL UPDATE

UNITED STATES TREASURY PAYMENT NOTICE 2015
Department of International Financial Relations

RE: PAYMENT APPROVAL UPDATE
Attention Email Account Owner with Reference Number:
UNDIFR/A2C0/9.0F233600015

This is to humbly informed you that your contract fund has been approved
for transfer into your bank account,after been appointed some few months
ago i found 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 claime your fund once and for all.

And the only fee needed now from you is $33,900 for the transfer of your
$27.9 Million 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 $33,900 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,(NDLEA) National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) if this fee is paid and all
international fee is cleared the transferred will be successful.

As soon as we hear from you we shall give you instructions on how to wire
the $33,900 to bank account to enable the commence of the transferred
fund.

And kindly re-confirm your bank account details to us for the transfer.

We dully await your prompt response.

Note:- Do Not Reply if you cannot pay the fees for all International
Subsidiaries Documentation of $33,900 Usd.

Thanks,
GRANT THOMAS
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
11785 W MACDOWELL #1223
AVONDALE 85392.ARIZONA, USA.



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