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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: tonconton inmigracion <toncontoninmigracionoficina@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:20:31 +0100
Subject: GOOD NEWS TO YOU, YOUR FUND IS READY FOR TRANSFER.

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE TREASURY DEPT.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States

IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF $20 MILLIONS USD.

ATTENTION BENEFICIARY

My Name is Janet Yellen the current secretary to the United States
Department of the Treasury, I hereby bring to your notice about your immediate
payments of your fund value of $20 million USD has being deposited to the
BANK OF AMERICA and this deposit was made officially by our seating president
Joe Biden with this deposit certificate number, 300089748 and he order the said
bank to transfer the funds to your account as soon as you contact them.

During his campaign for the office of the president then he received a
lot of complaint
from the international community and united nations as well that a lot of scams
has being going on in this country and with this reason he vow that if he assume
the office as president then he is going to deal with the issue of the
scammers and
pay the people that were involves on it in the past And your name and
email address
was found on the list that was submitted to our office recently that
you are yet to be paid.

And through the legal information arrives to us here that most of the
scammers are
using fake bank, western Union, and Money Gram for the scamming activities,
telling the innocent people that western union will pay them such big
amount of money.
We want to let you know today that western Union has no right to handle such
payments so stop wasting your time with them.

Your funds US$20,000,000,00 can only be transfer to your Account via
bank to bank wire
transfer by BANK OF AMERICA the appointed bank by the federal
government to transfer your funds directly
to your account once you contact them with all your bank details, the
funds were available
at the bank now and the bank chief executive officer and president of
Bank of america
Brian Thomas Moynihan has being waiting for you to contact them today
for your payments.

So contact BANK OF AMERICA DIRECTOR Immediately you receive this email
and you can also call
the director on phone and ask him to transfer your funds into your
provided account .

This is the Contact E-mail Address of the (Brian Thomas Moynihan)
Representative that is to handle your transaction,

Contact E-mail: (fmoffinanceoffice@gmail.com)

Contact Person: Brian Thomas Moynihan


Please do not forget to contact the bank with all your bank details
such as follows

1.Full Name and Address......

2. your Country ..............

3. Your City ..........................

4. Your Age ..........................

5. your occupation................

6. Your ID ......................................

7. Your Bank Account Number......

8. Swift Code Number ..............

9. The Bank Name........................

10.Your telephone number ...............


11.Your Account Name ......................

Note that the funds were deposited with the Insurance bond and this is
the insurance certificate number, 0169,
so feel free to contact the directed Bank Immediately. The BANK OF
AMERICA May request the fee of $300.00
dollars from you which will serve as the LEGALIZATION FEE as you don’t
have an account with them according to the Bank CEO.
And the $300.00 was the only fee needed on this transaction as you are
contacting them today ask them how you
can send the payment to them to get your funds transferred to your
account immediately.

Do let me know immediately you receive the funds.
God bless you as I wait to hear from you soon

FROM THE DESK OF UNITED STATE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,

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