419 scam: "U.S. Department of the Treasury" Scam Victims Compensation Sanction (temp)

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "U.S. Department of the Treasury"
Reply-To: richard.berner@inbox.lv
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 02:39:37 -0800
Subject: Scam Victims Compensation Sanction (temp)

U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue,NW =

Washington,DC 20220 =

This is to bring to your notice that the US Department of the Treasury in =
affiliation with the Office of
Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") has been authorized in their Sanction Progr=
ams to compensate 1,000 scam
victims who has being a victim of internet scam.The US Department of the Tr=
easury has decided to pay you
$250,000.00 USD(Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) each =
in order to restore the =

global economy to the enviable standard of respectability.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested as=
one of the victims of their
operations.You are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this mess=
age to him or her for any reason
whatsoever as the US SECRET SERVICE is already on trace of the other crimi=
nals,these information should
remain confidential till they are all apprehended,other victims who have n=
ot been contacted can submit their
application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You will be contacting Richard Berner directly by replying to this email fo=
r the release of your $250,000.00 USD
compensation fund,he's the director of the Office of Financial Research (OF=
R).You are also advised to provide
him with the under listed information for verification:
=

1)Full Names 2)Home Address 3)Nationality: 4)Age 5)Sex 6)Occupation 7)Phone=
Number.

Best Regards,
Jacob J. Lew =

Secretary of the Treasury.

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