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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: "Intercepted Fund Transfer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <scott_rogers@yahoo.cn>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:36:31 +0100
Subject: Re: Intercepted Fund Transfer Call +2347045923697

 
FROM I.M.F.MONITORING TEAM
African Department Office
International Monetary Fund (I.M.F),
LAGOS NIGERIA.
TEL: +2347045923697
 
Subject: Re: Intercepted  Fund Transfer
 
Dear Beneficiary,
 
It has come to our notice in our Headquarters building (I.M.F) that your impending funds from Africa, which was intercepted, has not been released to you ,We noticed that you made several attempt to transfer your funds but to no avail. Our investigation continued to the African Department (I.M.F),The monitoring team gave an unsatisfactory report to your transaction, hence the chairman is presently under investigation for conspiracy with your representative with in tension to divert your funds.
 
You are advised to desist from contacting anyone including your agent or representative in these regard,  because based on the pains you have gone through in the past and to avoid further re-occurrence of the ugly incident, the International Monetary Fund has taken full responsibility to ensure that a compensatory sum of us$ 10,500 000 00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)of your over due fund is transferred  to any of your nominated account without any more delay.
 
You are hereby advised to respond to these mail immediately by providing the following information as requested below:
 
1. Name:
2. Address:
3. Next Of Kin
4  Age:
5. Occupation
6. Country: (Present Location)
7. Nationality:
8. Telephone:
9. Fax number: (if any)
10.Banking Particulars (ACCOUNT NUMBER, SWIFT CODE NUMBER. ROUTHING NUMBER)
 
The purpose for this is to regain the lost glory of our great country and to also show the entire world that this government is highly ready to fight corruption in every sector in Nigeria be it in the banking, oil and communication sector in the last 3year's Nigeria has the worst name in corruption in the world, where we were rated in the world as one of the most corrupted nation in the world and it is never a good name to us.
 
Due to the effort, sincerity, courage and trustworthiness people like you and the entire world has showed in helping Nigeria to fight corruption unlike Microsoft who just signed a contract with the Nigeria Government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. (EFCC) an organization that was formed by this same government to fight corruption in all sector's in the country, including the FBI, INTERPOL,BRITISH GOVERNMENT and the whole world that has been helping us in arresting those that has been involved in advance fee fraud locally and international.
 
Be informed that irrespective of what transpired to you in the past, we are not in any way trying to be persuasive on you as regards enhancing the safe passage of your fund into any of your nominated account or destination but it will be very important to note from our findings  that you were not supposed to have gone through all those bogus bills in receipt of your over due fund.
 
However in order to  ensure equity, probity and  fairness, you  be required to carry out just a little obligation as may be required which in all honesty will be to enable the director of legal services secure  an affidavit of claim and fact from the high court here and also sign your fund release papers to enhance the immediate safe passage of the fund into any of your nominated account in the next 48 banking hours.
 
This obligation will of course be necessary and mandatory from you only if you can not be able to make the trip here to secure this affidavit of claim and also sign your fund release papers.
 
You are to confirm receipt and call me ASAP for more clarification on the way forward.
 
Yours sincerely
Scott Rogers
African Department Director.
 

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