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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: "Timothy (Tim) E. Gribben" <brucedmayor@gmail.com>
Reply-To: transferofficer15@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:15:24 +0100
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Our_Ref=3A_=7DOutstanding_payment_sum_of_=28US=2410=2C500=2C000=2E?=
=?UTF-8?Q?00_United_States_Dollars=29_Your_Ref=3A_=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6?=


Attention:

In view of your outstanding payment sum of (US$10,500,000.00 United States
Dollars Only) forwarded to my disk for a proper verification's which have
been undergoing difficulties to receive, presently forwarded to the desk of
Timothy (Tim) E. Gribben. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE
FISCAL SERVICE, United States of America for urgent
verification/attention’s and to give the final instruction to your funds
release.

The said fund after successfully and completion of investigation of the
fund and source, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE FISCAL
SERVICE, we discovered that such fund cannot be deliver to you by cash, it
must have to go through bank to bank process.

has been mandated to undertake control of your settlement. We have
finalized a meeting with the Holding Bank and they have accepted to help in
getting the fund to your account. They have studied all the possible means
of sending the fund to your account without stoppage or interference by any
authorities in the name of demand for documents.

The Holding bank has accepted to move the fund to the correspondent bank
through the bank instrument as a bank. The paying bank will liquidate the
Bond into cash and set-up an account in your name (as directed by the
Holding bank), to transfer the fund to your account as an investment fund.
They will claim the fund originated from their bank to enable them transfer
the fund with backup with their documents to avoid stoppage once the fund
is transferred. Based on this, they have mapped out the procedure that must
be followed for a successful transfer.

1 They will assign a representative that will be coming to your home or
country or account destination for a meeting, where the signing of the
investment agreement documents will be performed. The investment agreement
is the documents that will prove to the management and authorities there
was an agreement to invest the fund and you will act as the fund manager.
The agreement becomes invalid once the fund gets to your account. The bank
is using this to enable the fund gets to your account without any problem
or hitch.

2. The representative of the bank will register the investment agreement
with the US Embassy in your country or account destination. This is to get
the approval and certify the legality; this is to confirm that the fund has
nothing related to illegality and it is meant for investment. The
registration of the investment agreement with the US Embassy and you will
hand over the required cost to the bank representative on the round table
face to face meeting either in your home pending your welcoming or your
conducive meeting .

3.The representative will have a meeting with your bank to get the
compliance and inform your bank on the incoming fund after the registration
of the investment agreement with the US Embassy.

4.There will be an MOU that will be signed after the bank and US Embassy
meeting; this is for the fulfillment of the compliance and also the release
of the funds to your account after the compliance is fulfilled by you.

This is the arrangement. You as the recipient of the funds will fulfill the
following requirements:

Furnish us with your current home/office address } ..........
Your full first/Middle/Last Name's }
Your direct Lines/ cell/home/office/Fax}
Your age}
Your Occupation}
The copies of your identification {ETC} Your passport or your driver's ID.

a) You will purchase the Business class E-ticket for the bank
representative that will be coming, you will forward the attached copy of
the flight ticket schedules .

b) Hotel accommodation for 2-3 Working days, where the representative will
stay for the duration of the transaction.

This is the procedure’s and the options of your funds release and our
outcome meeting. I will be waiting for your response for further and urgent
directives. Act as advised to enable you receive your funds ASAP, you have
been wasting your time and your money to wrong officials whom has been
misleading you for a while. Now disregarding any further fake information’s
about your funds, this is the only way-out for your funds released no
any-other alternatives.

Yours faithfully.
Timothy (Tim) E. Gribben
FOR THE (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE)

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