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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: officeofpresidencywwww@gmail.com
Reply-To: officeofpresidency113@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 03:42:40 -1100
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION



--
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington,
DC 20500, United States Executive Office of the President
 Attention,Sir/madam

After going through the Federal Reserve Bank and other banks payment
records here in the state, your name and information was discovered
among the beneficiaries whom has not received their payment despite all
the inconveniences and financial commitments you have invested towards
the pursuit of the fund, and while verifying the reasons you have not
received this payment, we could not find any genuine reason why your
funds has not been released to you, hence your file confirms that you
have fulfilled all necessary obligations regarding the fund release.

Now we are prompted to intervene in this matter based on the series of
report such as this which we have received from various beneficiaries
locally/internationally, and since our involvement in this payment
arrangement, several beneficiaries has received/confirmed their funds in
their various private bank accounts, and we assure you that yours would
never be exception once you follow our directives, hence we are
dedicating 100% assiduity in making sure that all effected beneficiaries
received their payments now.

Therefore, all you require is to reconfirm your details such as, your
residential address, your telephone number and your banking details for
our commencement.

Note, immediately upon the confirmation of the above required
information from you, we shall assign any of the leading bank here in
the state to execute your fund transfer with immediate effect and
forward the report file to us for our confirmation, and be rest assured
that this fund release would not exceed 48 hours upon the receipt of the
above information from you.Awaiting your urgent response to this office,
Contact Person:Miss Kate Jhonson
Position; Director Foreign Operation Dept 
E-mail: officeofpresidency113@gmail.com
WAASAP: +12092481386

Ms. Katie Johnson,For; And on behalf of the Executive Office of the
Presidency (GOD BLESS AMERICA).

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