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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • infoimf@movemail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "intmfd@terra.es" <intmfd@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:59:32 +0100 (MET)
Subject: RE: OUTSTANDING PAYMENT



External Review Committee on Debt Statistics
And Balance Debt Divisions
1 And 11 IMF-World Bank Collaboration
700 19th Street, N.W., Washington , D.C. 20431
(infoimf@movemail.com)

RE: OUTSTANDING PAYMENT



we the cooperate world financial body have received all the overdue outstanding payments owning following firms, contractors, inheritance next of kin and lottery beneficiaries that was originated from Africa, Europe, Asia plus middle east, Americans ) among the list are individuals and companies that still unpaid fund has been located to the standard chartered bank.


Your name appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a part-payment of $5.5million and has been approved already for months.

You are requested to get back to this office for our verification and immediate approval of your fund release.


For more direction and instruction on how to receive your fund stop every further communications from any office / individual to enhance quick transfer of your overdue payment and direct all your contact details to this office.

this development is as result of the effort made by world bank, the international monetary fund, (IMF) to erase debt of up to $55bn (â£31bn) owed by African banks, Europeans bank and other several international bank world wide as it has been backed by one of the main international lenders (international monetary fund)


In according to records in the system and central computer it indicates that you are among listed. write us back to the above or the one Below:


Yours Sincerely,



MR Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo
http://www.imf.org/external/np/omd/bios/rrf.htm





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