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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: "IMF COMPENSATING TEAM" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rev.justin.okorocha@priest.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 19:37:08 +0100
Subject: IMF COMPENSATION FUND OF $1,800,000.00 USD

Attention: Email ID Owner RE: 2000 – 2015 SCAM VICTIM'S COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF BENIN.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating all the scam victims and your email address was found in the scam victim's list. This Western Union office has been fully mandated by the IMF to transfer your compensation to you via Western Union® Money Transfer. However, we have concluded to affect your own payment through Western Union® Money Transfer, 5,000 USD twice daily until the total sum of 1.800.000 USD is completely transferred to you. We can not be able to send the payment with your email address alone; thereby we need your information as to where we will be sending the funds, such as;

Receiver’s name:...................
Address:......................
Country:..................
City:......................
Mobile number:...................
Sex ....................
Age ......................

Note: that your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 72 hours if we did not hear from you, this instruction was given by general official of IMF Benin. We will start the transfer as soon as we received your information.

Yours in service International Monetary Fund and Consolation Team!!!

Much Oblige,
Rev. Justin Okorocha,
Cco: De-factor Chief Compensation Officer
Cco: United Nations And Benin Compensation Committee
Cco: United Nations Anti-fraud Committee Tel: +22998988981


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