419 scam: "U.S. Department of Treasury" <ocm000111@gmail.com> COVID-19 & SCAM Victims Compensation Lottery Prize !!!

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "into your nominated bank account" (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)
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.
- infor7563@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "U.S. Department of Treasury" <ocm000111@gmail.com>
Reply-To: infor7563@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:27:10 +0100
Subject: COVID-19 & SCAM Victims Compensation Lottery Prize !!!

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U.S. Department of Treasury
Treasury Building 1500 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW Washington, D.C., U.S

This is to bring to your notice that the US Department of the Treasury
in affiliation with the Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") has
been authorized to compensate 1,000 scam victims who have been a
victim of internet scam. The USA Department of the Treasury has
decided to pay you $2.5 Million each in order to restore this global
economic hardship to the enviable standard of respectability.

Your particulars were mentioned by one of the syndicates who was
arrested here in the United States by the FBI and United States secret
service as one of the victims of their operations. You are hereby
warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him or her for
any reason whatsoever as the US SECRET SERVICE and FBI is already on
trace of the other criminals anywhere in the world, these information
should remain confidential till they are all apprehended other victims
who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for
scrutiny and possible consideration.

Contact Our payment Officer with bellow information
NAME : Thomas P. Feddo
Email : ( infor7563@gmail.com )

Ask him to release your $2.5 Million online account information such
as your Account login and Password to you so that you will wire your
fund into your nominated bank account anywhere in the world, he's the
director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR) You are also
advised to provide him with the under listed information Including
your Bank account information where the fund will be wired directly or
they will open an online account and transfer the money into the
account for you:

1)Full Names_________2)Home Address__________3)Nationality__________
4)Age 5)Sex_________6)Occupation___________ 7)Phone
Number___________8, copy of your Identification____________???

Best Regards,
Michael Faulkender
Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy United State Treasury

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