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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: "Jo Whelan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ukdebt.serviceoffice@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:52:11 +0100
Subject: New Mail

Commissioner for the Reduction of the National Debt
UK Debt Management Office.
East cheap Court
11 Philpot Lane
London
EC3M 8UD
 
 
 
Attn:
 
 
As you must be aware, I am the Controller General for the Reduction of the
National Debt in the United Kingdom. I am writing you with regards to your
stalled funds transfer you have been expecting from the U.K. For your
interest, I would urge you to accord this correspondence your full
indulgence and attention, as you may likely have been receiving other
emails of similar contents from the numerous fraud syndicate and
impostors. The authenticity and difference would be evident in a moment.
 
I was specially instructed by the Office of the Prime Minister to embark
on a personal review of all long pending and stalled International
Transfer Files of all Banks Operating in the United Kingdom, including
those at our Offshore Foreign Correspondent Banks, with a view of
redeeming genuine cases of Transfers, and consigning others as bad debt in
the Federal Budget. The office of the Prime Minister has mandated me to
ensure that all genuine claim and transfers are paid.
 
The Government of the U.K took this major step in addressing these
problems of all stalled transfers as a result of the global financial
crisis that has affected banks by establishing an autonomous National Debt
Management Office (NDMO) to take over payment responsibility on behalf of
all banks operating in the UK.
 
The creation of the NDMO consolidates debt management functions as a
result of the global financial melt-down for ensuring proper coordination
of all payments emanating for the U.K. The NDMO centralizes and
coordinates the country's debt recording and management activities,
including debt service forecasts; transfers payments; and advising on debt
negotiations as well as new borrowings.
 
It also provides for the establishment of a supervisory board that has
oversight functions on all banks operating in the UK as well as
endorsement of strategic thrusts and policies for the organization,
consistent with the broad policy objectives of government. Your transfer
file came to my attention just this morning, and I was compelled to take
special interest in your transfer because of its peculiar history of
procedural inconsistencies and unauthorized payment approval documents
that are contained in your file. Obviously all the persons you assigned to
process your transfer have proved to be fraudulent and incompetent.
 
Simply put it that some management of the Bank have tried unsuccessfully
to smuggle your transfer through a non-existent back door, while
impersonating the offices of various government departments before you,
and feeding you with forged transferred document.
 
Consequently, I have this morning ordered the heads of all the relevant
Government Departments genuinely involved in the foreign transfer
protocol, including the Treasury Department, and the Bank to suspend all
further action on your transfer pending conclusion of my personal
investigation into the actual reasons why your transfer has failed to
date. Official memos have been issued to the relevant departments.
 
However, preliminary evidence shows clearly that these fraudulent persons
you have assigned to help you process your transfer have been extorting
monies from you through concocted excuses and lies, only for them to
divert the monies collected from you to their private pockets and return
back to demand more monies from you endlessly. Please you should not allow
yourself to be deceived and extorted anymore. As the Controller General
for the Reduction of the National Debt in the United Kingdom, I want to
assure you that your transfer will now be processed through the simple,
transparent and authoritative means .
 
Please discontinue any form of contact with all those you have been
dealing with before now, no matter the nature of your relationship with
any of these crooks, including your local attorney. My intention is to
quickly reactivate and sort out your transfer without any distraction. So
you are forbidden to preempt anyone of this contact, otherwise I will be
compelled to out rightly cancel your transfer along others a bad debt.
 
 
Reply immediately to acknowledge this advice, and I will instruct you
further.
 
Regards,
Ms. Jo. Whelan.
Commissioner for the Reduction of the National Debt
UK Debt Management Office.
 
Disclaimer ***** this email and any attachment may contain confidential
information. If you are not the intended recipient because it was sent to
you in error, you are not authorized to reply copy or disclose all or any
part of it without the prior written consent of Commissioner for the
Reduction of the National Debt UK Debt Management Office.
 

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