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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 OFFICE" <info@usa.org>
Reply-To: oficefile1899@accountant.com
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:08:06 -0800
Subject: WELCOME TO THE IMF HEADQUARTER U.S.A

WELCOME TO THE IMF HEADQUARTER
#935 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington DC, USA 20535.

URGENT RESPONSE FROM IMF REMITTANCE DIRECTOR

PUBLIC AND INDIVIDUALS NOTICE.

If you received this message in error, for instance, via your Email-SPAM/JUNK folder, please note that this occurrence might have happened because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service Provider, so therefore we urge you to treat this mail genuinely, as we have only but 7days to finish this project.

I am HON. JOHN WILLIAMS and am here to present to this email owner a wonderful life changing offer brought to he/she by Mrs.Mavis Wanczyk the Massachusetts, the hospital worker that won US$758.7million the largest single-ticket prize Power-ball jackpot in January 08th 2017 and She just started international charitable donation campaign which she vowed to give away some of his winning as a donation sum of US$15.6 MILLION per each person to improve the life of some seven lucky individuals from any part of the world, which your name and E-mail, was forwarded to our head office here in Georgia for immediate shipment as soon as you follows our below guideline to enhance a positive delivery of the said fund. Her reason for this 'FREE-WILL-DONATION' according to our journalist interview report from her on the 20th September 2018 is because she had once experienced the situation of been scammed by some internet business fraudsters etc.

Therefore following the instruction to pay 2017/2018 7lucky scam victims $15.6 Million each by Mrs Mavis Wanczyk, this IMF department has been instructed to transfer to this email owner his/her own winning grant through ATM GOLD VISA CARD, we wish to inform you that your email address was one of the lucky ones to receive this prize. You will be receiving $15.6MUSD today, but you must settle with the total delivery fee of $209.00 usd completely. Also the reason you must pay for this above mentioned fee is to clear the out-standing signing and official stamp duty fee of the IMF (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) agency to your fund ownership claiming also remember that this fund origin reference information cannot be forwarded to you, until we confirms the $209 needed fee from you.

To ensure we are in contact with the rightful beneficiary of this above mentioned fund, please feedback us with your below following details:

1. Your Full Name
2. Address
3. Phone
4. Occupation
5. Age

The above information should be directed to ''HON John Williams (MR), at this email: oficefile1899@accountant.com


Also include this transaction secret to avoid impostors from stealing your fund. Below is your fund secret code: ''MGX678G''. Remember Your fund payment file will expire after 7 days if there is no response, then we will have no other option than to return your fund registration payment file to the IMF head office as unclaimed.

Thanks for your co-operation and your swift response will enhance our service towards this assigned project as soon as possible.



Regards,

HON John Williams
IMF OFFICE REP
email: oficefile1899@accountant.com

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