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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: "MR. RODRIGO DE RATO" <rodrigo.derato@imf.org> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mr.rodrigo.derato@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:22:36 +0200
Subject: RE: URGENT FINAL WARNING.


Attn: The Honourable Beneficiary.

RE: URGENT FINAL WARNING.

We at the Office of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) United Kingdom, are writing this letter to your goodself today, as a final warning notification for your goodself to be in contact with this organization unfailingly within twenty four (24) hours from the time of your receipt of this electronic mail, so as to allow us effect our statutory obligation of having the complete funds allocated on your behalf, released and remitted into your designated bank account without further delays.

Please be of knowledge, that if we do not receive your prompt response to this electronic mail within twenty four (24) hours from the time of your receipt, we would have no other alternative option than to have the complete funds allocated on your behalf revoked, and your payment allocation opportunity cancelled without any future considerations, as this letter makes our 30th notification to your goodself today since your payment release and allocation.

In your response to this email, kindly re-confirm to this office your accurate details outlined below, so as to avoid any funds remittance/transaction errors from the International Remittance Department of our funds paying bank, during the remittance of your complete allocated funds into your designated bank account, and to fully ascertain that you are the true and genuine beneficiary to this email;

A. Complete genuine legal first, middle and last name data on your incomplete payment file with us.

B. Complete genuine legal residing address and country data on your incomplete payment file with us.

C. Complete genuine legal company details and address data on your incomplete payment file with us.

D. Complete funds amount data on your payment file with us.

E. Personal direct telephone/mobile/fax number(s).

F. Complete genuine legal banking co-ordinates data's on your incomplete payment file with us.

Upon the receipt of the re-confirmation of the complete above outlined details by your goodself, the process for the completion of your incomplete payment file with us would begin in earnest, which would further effect the prompt hitch free release and complete remittance of the funds allocated on your behalf, into your designated bank account without further delays.

Please let it be of your knowledge at this current time frame that we have recently received six (6) different nominated number banking co-ordinate furnished this office by unanimous persons poising as your partners, with instructions that your complete allocated funds be remitted fully into them, and as a result of this activity, we have reasons to believe that your goodself must be in a misleading unknowing fraudulent relationship with fraudulent individuals poising as topmost government official's, with the sole aim of defrauding your goodself from all your hard earned funds and eventually stealing your allocated contract funds by fraudulent diversion into their already provided number accounts.

If the above related assumption is true, you are hereby instructed to desist and stop every communication with these fraudster's immediately without delay, or get ready to loose more or all of your hard earned funds to these fraudsters and finally your allocated contract funds.

Finally, all your correspondences should be directed to our direct official ''reply to'' email address only for security reasons and to protect your privacy at all time frames.

Thank you for your co-operation and understanding, as your prompt response with the re-confirmation of your required details outlined above is highly awaited, in-order to effect the final successful release of your allocated contract payment to your goodself without further undue delays.

Yours sincerely,

Office of the Managing Director,
Mr. Rodrigo de Rato,
International Monetary Fund,
United Kingdom Branch Office.




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