419 scam: "Steven T. Mnuchin" <"WWW."@wind.ocn.ne.jp> ***Recovery fund Notification****

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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "diplomatic delivery"
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "huge amount of money" (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)
- "is highly confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "diplomatic delivery" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "diplomatic agent" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
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.
- usatreasurydept04@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Steven T. Mnuchin" <"WWW."@wind.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Steven T. Mnuchin" <usatreasurydept04@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:48:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ***Recovery fund Notification****

Head Office Address.. 1334 South Central Avenue Los-Angeles, California.
:Web Site: http://www.usatreasurydepartment.com Tell________+1 (310) 924-6978

***Recovery fund Notification****

Good Day Dear.

Today we have deliberated on your matter, and we rather agreed that you should come physically here, if possible! But if you wouldn't make it,just follow my instruction so that we will put things in other and your fund will be delivered to your home address without any problem.

I am Steven Turner mnuchin Secretary of the Treasury under the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
You can get more details about me here; http://www.treasury.gov/about/Pages/Secretary.aspx.

Your fund together with fund certificate of fund ownership has been received by my office sealed and secure. Thank God that your fund was brought to the office of a person like me,if not you wouldn't have heard about this your fund again in your life again. I have made up my mind to hand over your funds to you, if only you will follow my instruction. Compensation fund sum-(US$ 4.2 m)was brought to my office some hours ago from IMF Office in order of (Benin Republic Anti-Fraud Unit) (AFU),asking me to convert the funds into government treasury account as an unclaimed fund, just because you refused to pay attention to them and do what they ask of you. But as a christian i choose to contact you to know the reason why you choose to loss this huge amount of money just because of carelessness. And now!!! If you are good to me,i will be good to you and if you are not i will kick you off immediately.

I am ready to lobby for you in the next meeting of the Provisional Ruling Council tomorrow and i will present your case as a relative of mine (Brother-in-Law) and will emphasize that I had witnessed the occasion at the time of the program, execution and completion of this transaction. This fund will be disbursed through our DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY AGENT here in California USA.The Original Documents pertaining to the Approval of delivery will be carried by my confidential secretary John More immediately. After that,i will ask our diplomatic Agent to proceed to your address immediately with your fund for delivery.

All you need to do now is to send us your Home address.........,Full name......... and Fax Mobile Number........,so that our diplomatic agent will be able to deliver the fund to your home address if you prefer delivery method.

Contact me at your earliest convenience to work out the details and kindly keep this highly confidential as double claims will not been entertained.

Yours faithfully,
Steven T. Mnuchin
Secretary of the Treasury
(U.S. Department of the Treasury)
usatreasurydept04@yahoo.com
Tell...+1(310) 924-6978

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