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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: "Mr.Timothy (Tim) Gribben," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tgbusfiscalygrantdpt@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:26:38 -0800
Subject: Dear Eligible Recipient,

Dear Eligible Beneficiary,


We sincerely apologise for sending you this sensitive information through email instead of a certified mail, post-mail, phone or face to face conversation, it is due to the urgency and importance of the security information of our citizenry.

I am Mr.Timothy (Tim) Gribben, Commissioner of the U.S.Department of the Treasury of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (FS). At the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, we collect revenue, delinquent debt, and unpaid contract funds and disburse funds to millions of Americans and Non-American ensuring their timely receipt of unpaid contracts, compensation funds, benefits, Small Business Administration, and Loan funds to help fight Situational poverty. Generational poverty. Absolute poverty. Relative poverty, Urban poverty. Rural poverty.

The Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding before the deadline date on April 20th 2023.) Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $15,000,000.00 in funding.

In total, 696 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) from across the country requested a total of $7.69 billion in awards, which is nearly 4.4 times the amount of available funding ($1.75 billion). Nationwide, FY 2022 CDFI ERP applicants are headquartered in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico. More than half of all Certified CDFIs submitted an application for an ERP award, which included applications submitted by:

326 CDFI Loan Funds, which represents 46.8% of all ERP Applicants and 57% of all Certified CDFI loan funds;
222 CDFI Credit Unions, which represents 31.9% of all ERP Applicants and 47% of all Certified CDFI credit unions;
141 CDFI Banks/Bank Holding Companies, which represents 20.3% of all ERP Applicants and 44% of all Certified CDFI bank/bank holding companies; and 7 CDFI Venture Capital Funds, which represents 1% of all ERP Applicants and 47% of all Certified CDFI venture capital funds.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has committed to an Agency Priority Goal (APG) to reduce paper checks to 45.7 million in FY 2022 and increase the electronic payment rate to 96.4% for all Treasury-disbursed payments in FY 2023. Please be informed that you have been fixed for a vouchsafe of 15Million US Dollars from The United States Agency for International Development and these funds will be remitted directly to you by the Ergonix Allied Bank as the issuing bank. after they have reconfirmed your identity. Contact directly or send a direct email to the bank at:

Bank Email: contact@ergonixallied.com
Remittance Bank: Ergonix Allied Bank

Please reply for further details.
Mr.Timothy (Tim) Gribben,
U.S Department of the Treasury’s
Bureau of the Fiscal Service (F.S.)

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