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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" <ustreasurydeparment03@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Brucegutman.consultant@outlook.com
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:28:34 -0700
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 inform 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 claim your fund once and for all.

And the only fee needed now from you is $30,385.62 for the transfer of
your $72.9 Million Dollars 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 $30,385.62 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 transfer will be
successful.

As soon as we hear from you we shall give you instructions on how to
wire the $30,385.62 to a bank account to enable the commence of your
fund transfer.

And kindly re-confirm your bank account details to us for the transfer
to avoid any impromptu mistakes.

We duly await your sincere response.

Note:- Do Not Reply if you cannot pay the fees for all International
Subsidiaries Documentation of $30,385.62 USD.


Thanks,

BRUCE GUTMAN

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

11785 W MACDOWELL #1223

AVONDALE 85392.ARIZONA, USA.



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