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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:
- "trunk box" (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)
- "consignment " (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)
- "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)
- "fund beneficiary" (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 dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- official.department@usa.com (Outblaze.com, Hong Kong; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Richard Porter II"
Reply-To: <official.department@usa.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 03:02:47 +0800
Subject: Welcome to United State Department of Treasury

Dear Email Owner/Fund Beneficiary,
This is is to inform you that, we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Union (OAU), the International Monetary Fund and FBI. We have been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of African countries and Europe, which includes Nigeria, United Kingdom, Benin Republic, Spain, Ghana, Turkey, Cameroon, Kenya and Senegal, and they are all in government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) Hauge Netherlands soon for Criminal/Fraud justice.

During the course of our investigation, we have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. The United Nations anti-crime commission and the International Monetary Fund (Imf) have ordered that the money recovered from the scammers to be shared among 100 lucky people around the world for compensation. This letter/Email is been directed to you because your email address and country name was found in one of the scammer Artist file and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of US$1,300,000.00 (One Million Three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars).

We have arranged your payment to be paid to you through Consignment trunk box that contains cash to receive the above fund, you are therefore advised to contact the (US Department of Treasury) who will arrange to deliver the fund to your destination address. We have advised the Secretary general of Department Treasury to open a private email address with new number as to enable us to monitor this payment and the deliver communications to avoid further delay or misdirection of your fund. Kindly contact US Department of Treasury General secretary right now with below contact details:

Contact: STEVEN MNUCHIN
Compensation Fund Dept: US Department of Treasury
Contact Tel: +1 (913) 730-5530
Contact Email: official.department@usa.com

Contact him now and forward below details to him:

1. Your Full Name.....
2. Your Country.......
3. Your Address.......
4. Your Cell/Mobile Number.....
5. Your Occupation.......
6. Your ID card copy.....

Yours in Service.
Mr. Richard Porter II
United Nations Fund Investigation Unit.

Please make sure you are a scam victim to respond to this Email and if this mail come as an error Ignore it and delete immediately.

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