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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: "U.S. Department of the Treasury" <hilarygeg@gmail.com>
Reply-To: henrygeorge11@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:40:03 +0100
Subject: U.S. Department of the Treasury




U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue,NW
Washington,DC 20220

This is to bring to your notice that the US Department of the Treasury in
affiliation with the Office of World Foreign Assets Control (WOFAC) has
been authorized in their Sanction Programs to compensate 10,000 scam
victims or those who have being victims of internet scam and lost of money
on unsuccessful local and foreign contracts and transactions. The US
Department of the Treasury in collaboration with the Office of World
Foreign Assets Control (WOFAC) has decided to pay you $2, 500,000.00 USD
(Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) each in order to
restore the global economy to the enviable standard of respectability.

Your particulars was obtained from one of the syndicates who was arrested
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 is already on trace of the other
criminals and embezlers of people's hard earned funds. 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 possibly listed for compensation at last.

You will be contacting Dr Henry George directly at his E-mail:
(henrygeorge11@hotmail.com) or by replying to this email for the release
of your $2,500,000.00 USD compensation funds. He is the director of the
Office of Financial Research (OFR).You are also advised to provide him
with the under listed information for verification:

1) Full Names
2) Home Address
3) Nationality:
4) Age
5) Sex
6) Occupation
7) Phone Number.

Best Regards,
Jacob J. Lew
Secretary of the Treasury.
World Foreign Assets Control (WOFAC)
Washington, DC.

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