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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: "William Scott," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <williams.scott6@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:52:57 +0100
Subject: FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK (FINCEN)

FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK (FINCEN)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
1120 CONNECTICUT AVE., NW. NETWORK (FINCEN). WASHINGTON, DC USA
READ ABOUT US THROUGH THE URL: (http://www.fincen.gov/


REF: US/28028/8A28/18

we have been having series of meetings with the international communities, the world bank, international monetary fund(IMF) and the federal ministry of finance, that you legally approved to Received a valued amount of funds to credit instruction from the federal government of Benin Republic

However after our deliberations with all the stake holders, the agreement was reached to settle all over due foreign payments. This is very good news, please use this opportunity to receive your fund, feel free to contact us back with your information’s to enable forward it to the office in charge of your payment, The office is DEBT Reconciliation Committee on foreign payments, the contact information’s will be send to you as soon as we hear from you

Please, every correspondence you have with this office, do send me on my mail for record purposes.

When I receive your reply i will forward his email address to you.
Yours faithfully

Expecting your prompt response

Yours in service
William Scott,
FinCEN Director
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
U.S.A

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