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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. K. Douglas <admin@ledfield.space>
Reply-To: ciaprocessingunit@usa.com
Date: 28 Jul 2021 19:23:06 -0700
Subject: Good News From Our Office

*Central Intelligence Agency Office
*Public Affairs Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 20535J.*
*Edgar Hoover Building 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington,*
*D.C.20535-0001, USA
*Website: https://www.cia.gov/*
*Email: ciaprocessingunit@usa.com

*Attn Beneficiary:*

*The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Washington, D.C. being an independent United States Government Agency
responsible for provision of National Security Intelligence to United States policy makers around the world.

*I am Kingman Douglas, in charge of Central Intelligence Public Affairs, on our Investigation I was revealed
that you have spent your hard earned money obtaining transfer documents as requested by some Imposters, as it
has really cost you a lot of money, yet all efforts to complete the transaction have been to no avail.

*With the help of some of the best Internet investigators Affiliated to the (CIA), we have taken out time in
screening through this project as stipulated on our protocol of operation and in addition, we sent special
Financial Crime Investigators from Washington DC to 158 countries all over the world in other to carry out
proper investigation after receiving series of reports similar to yours as you are not the only person
awaiting to finalize this transaction.

*Based on the findings from our special Financial Crime Investigators, we discovered that your impending
payment is being delayed by Imposters, claiming to be INTERPOL, Banks, I.M.F, United Nations etc, so in our
bid to transparency, I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to effect the
compensation exercise for transparency and most especially to avoid re-occurrence of the delay in payment. In
conclusion, we came to a final resolution as all the Financial Institutions involved was duly represented. It
might interest you to note that MasterCard International have hence been empowered to assist the Ministry of
Finance, State Treasury and all the financial institutions involved to make this compensation exercise simple
and fast.

*The first Batch of payment; Two million five hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$2,500,000.00), have
been assigned for MasterCard International to process a debit card in your favor with reference No. MCIMJ:
5148/4172 as approved to be issued to you as a valid international Master Debit Card accepted all over the
World.

*Due to my position in service I have called all the Bank Head Offices involved to report to my office for
total transparency and uprightness in any further payment so you are expected to respond to this email ASAP as
any further dealings / communication with any individual or group of individuals will result to drastic action
by CIA and would be considered illegal since it has been mandated that all financial transaction communication
MUST pass through my office for simple and trustworthy outcome.

NOTE: MORE IMPORTANTLY, NO FURTHER COMMUNICATION TO ANY PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSON, OFFICE(S) FOR YOU NOT TO
COMPLICATE ISSUE BECAUSE I AM ALREADY TAKING CARE OF YOUR CASE SO FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTION FOR YOUR FUND TO BE
RELEASED SUCCESSFULLY.

Kindly contact Processing Unit on email with the follow:
Full Name......
Address......
Phone number.....
Nationality.....
A copy of ID Card/International Passport.....
More details of your transaction will be needed to assist us work for you successfully to
(ciaprocessingunit@usa.com )

CC: Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters In Washington, D.C.

*Your urgent action on this notice is expected.

Yours Sincerely,
Central Intelligence Agency.
Mr. Kingman Douglas.
Central Intelligence Agency
Office of Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20505
Central Intelligence Agency.

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