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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: "David Kautter" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <elizabethbruceoffice@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:12:32 +0100
Subject: Your Funds : Internal Revenue Service (IRS)



We the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have sent you email several time without respond Please what is taking you so long to respond to your email and why are you keeping us silent once more is there anything wrong ? now that we have approve and permit your payment to get to you without delay . so why are you still worried ?

But you have to be sure that we are not the one who is holding your funds and not until you respond there is no way your funds will get to you . you need to be careful and we need no be sure that you are ready to receive your payment and that is the question now because we need to be sure and we will like to ask you why are you trying to abandon your payment of $11. 6 Million just because there there have been a little delay please as soon as you are ready to receive your payment .

than i don’t know what is taking you so long to get back to us so we can explain everything to you in details on what to do and you will receive your funds once and for all and that i am very sure because there is nothing else holding you from receiving your payment but you . so can we talk on this now without delay

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) continues to warn consumers to guard against sending personal information and money to anyone outside the United State . this Waring was mandated few month back to make sure that everyone expecting funds from any organization should be careful with the kind of email or phone call they receive to avoid you being rip off.

With the opportunity of this special mandate we have been giving the privilege to secure your transition as long as your cooperation is guaranty there is nothing wrong if you have receive your payment by now but it have been on hold because you still have not get it right that you will have to treat our email urgent and stop wasting your time with scammer .

As long as you have choose to work with us we will make sure that your funds of $ 11 . 6 Million will be approved and send to you this progress is part of your effort to make sure that our dept is being paid to every individual and we are not ready to hold down any individual funds anymore .

the IRS have receive all right document and stamp to proceed and direct your payment and you should have get all your funds but it as come to our notice that some Government officer are trying to cover your money for themselves and are not willing to complete your transaction just as we have approved so for this reason there is no need to worry anymore because everything have been taking care of.

Like we told you that there is no need to worry about anyone keeping your money to themselves while we have other things to deal with we have approve and appoint an agent Mrs Elizabeth Bruce to help you out on receiving your payment we are %100 sure that as soon as she receive your mail there is no way she won’t treat you urgent also with respect and be sure that your payment get to you as soon as possible .

Upon instruction we will make sure that once you get in touch you are to forward your name and phone number for confirmation to her just to make sure that there won’t be any mistake or delay in your payment but one thing for sure is that your payment is guaranty once more thanks for your understanding await your urgent respond .

All instruction and necessary proceeds have been sent to her your cooperation with her is only needed for better Result

Please get to her once you receive this mail to avoid delay ……


Office Address Internal Revenue Service Building
1111 Constitution Ave., NW; Washington, D.C. 20224, U.S.











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