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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: Mc cathy Weng <mccathywend@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 19:52:42 -0700
Subject: THE U.S TREASURY DEPARTMENT


FINAL NOTIFICATION REGARDING YOUR FUND
Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations
who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes
those of Lottery, Contract and Inheritance.

Through our Fraud Monitoring Unit we have also noticed that over the past
you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters. We have
negotiated with the U.S Treasury Department that your payment totaling
$1,500,000.00 will be released to you via a custom pin based Credit card
with a maximum withdrawal limit of $8,000 a day which is powered by Master
Credit Card and can be used anywhere in the world for withdraw or
transaction. We have perfected everything in regards to the release of your
$1,500,000.00 United States Dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any
hitches as it's our duty to protect citizens of globally.

To redeem your fund you are hereby advised to abide to the instruction to
enable the shipment of the Premium Master Credit Card and it back up
document only nothing more.

so kindly try and see how you can send information so that we can as well
get the fund proceeded.

NAME:
COUNTRY:
PHONE NUMBER:
GENDER:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
MARITAL STATUS:
INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT:

Thanks and hope to read from you soon to enable us continue.

Mr. Mc Cathy Weng
THE U.S TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Address: 245 Murray Ln Sw # 14, Washington D.C.
Phone number: +12028214220
Email: ustreasury_department@post.com

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