419 scam: United States Department of the Treasury <vitodbn@tin.it> Attn beneficiary

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: United States Department of the Treasury <vitodbn@tin.it>
Reply-To: willianthony598@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:42:11 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Attn beneficiary

Hello beneficiary,

I hope that you are doing fine? Please I am Anthony Williams from the
United States Department of the Treasury.

I am writing this email to inform you that I am
still waiting to proceed and deliver your beneficiary fund from United
States and United Nation to you. The authorities have sent you a couple
of emails but no response from you. I am at the airport right now and I
need to proceed right away to your house and deliver your fund to you.
I want to let you know that the Airport Authorities and IMF authorities
will confiscate your fund if you fail to receive them before the next
24 hours.

I need to make sure that you must receive your complete fund before the
next 24 hours, to avoid losing your fund. You need to reply back to me
right now so that you must receive your complete fund worth
$2.500,000.00USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars). The authorities has contacted you several time but no
response from you, and I want to let you know that your silence will
not help issues, rather it will only make you to lose your fund,
because the authorities will go ahead and confiscate your fund if you
fail to receive them before the next 24 hours.

I need to start coming to your house right now and deliver your fund to
you because I have some other urgent appointment to handle at the
office, so I need to proceed and deliver your fund to you right now and
return back.

All you need to do now is to reply back to me right away so I can
proceed immediately and deliver your fund to you, then you will need to
reconfirm your correct delivery address and your available telephone
number, so that we must avoid any wrong delivery.

I await your urgent feedback so I can proceed and deliver your fund to
you, to avoid losing your fund. Reply back to me right away or you call
me on Tel: +1 (315) 646-8031.

Warmest Regard
Anthony Williams
United States Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220
United State of America.

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