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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: "Hon. Charles Rettig" <wumtransferservice010@gmail.com>
Reply-To: 49thirscommisioner@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 05:32:54 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION: DEAR

FROM IRS COMMISSIONER MR. Charles P. Rettig.
U.S.A IRS Address:1111 Constitution Ave,NW Washington, DC 20874

ATTENTION: DEAR


Greetings From The Internal Revenue Service United States of America.
Your total funds worth $15.5 million USD will be delivered to your
home address through any company of your choice from the below
mentioned so kindly update us with.

We hereby officially notify you about the present arrangement to pay
you, your over due Winning Prize/inheritance fund which you could not
complete the process of the release of your transfer pin code through
the Digitized Payment System. and you have spend a lot of money and a
lot time sending money to different people just to make sure you
receive your fund and after set and done your received nothing.We have
decided to pay your funds through (ATM VISA Card)

This arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank, United
Nation and Paris Club, due to fraudulent activities going on within
the world,The World Bank, United Nations and Paris Club introduced
this payment arrangement as to enable our Contract,Winning
Prize,inheritance beneficiary to receive their fund without any
interference,

The ATM VISA Card was contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLD
WIDE.The ATM VISA CARD is credited with the sum of $15.5 Million
united states dollars,it is already loaded in the Master Card which
you can use to access your fund in any ATM Stand/location worldwide
and we have concluded delivery arrangement with the below courier
services companies and their delivery time is stated below.

1; UPS=5hrs/$60,

2; FedEx=8hrs/$100,

3; DHL=12hrs/$75,


To enable the delivery proceed immediately today, Note that you will
be liable to pay the delivery fee of your ATM VISA Card with any of
the above courier company of your choice before the delivery will take
place to your destination address, Kindly provide me with the below
details in your response to this email and let me know which courier
company you would want us to use for the shipment of your ATM VISA
Card to you.

2. Full Names:
3. Country:
4. Phone Number:
5. Occupation:
6. Age:
7. Sex:

Reply this email with the below contact
details immediately you receive this email for immediate shipment of
your funds.

Yours Sincerely
Hon. Charles P Rettig
IRS Commissioner
Tel. 512 843 2984
Email: 49thirscommisioner@gmail.com

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