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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. James Wang" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <atmcardmonetary@qq.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:16:36 +0800
Subject: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND.
1900 Dong Cheng,
Gonling,Beijin China.

>From the desk of:
Mr. James Wang
International Settlement Dept.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Immediate ATM DEBIT Cash Card Payment Notification,

Attention:

This is to officially inform you that we the International Monetary
Fund Reconciliation Schemes have choose to verified your contract/inheritance
file and found that why you been unable to receive your payment
because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in respect
of your contract / inheritance payment which this office had the
original seal of this agreement with the assigned governmental
organization between the involved parties.
Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the none
officials in the bank and all your attempts to secure the release
of the fund to you have not been successful for this reasons.
We wish to advice you that such an illegal act like this have to stop
if you wish to receive your payment since we have decided to bring
a solution to your problem.
We have arranged your payment through our swift card payment centers,
hich is the latest instruction from International Monetary Fund
Reconciliation office.
The card center will send to you an ATM debit card which you will use
to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world,
so if you like to receive your fund in this way,
please let us know by contacting our ATM Center Manager with
the requested information as listed below to the follow office via email.
International Settlement Dept.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Immediate ATM DEBIT Cash Card Payment Notification


CONTACT
Mr. James Wang
Tele: +86 13794970304
Email: atmcardmonetary@qq.com


Your are to provide required information as shown below,
1. Full Name
2. Phone and Fax Number
3. Address Were You Want Them to Send the ATM Card to (P.O Box Not Acceptable)
4. Your Age and Current Occupation

In the mean time we have been mandated to issue out this payment via
this scheme due this fiscal budget year 2009 against the World Financial
and Economic crisis. Also for your information, you have to stop any
further communication with any other person (s) or office(s) to avoid
any hitches in receiving your payment.
Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct,
which is (TT-4404) so you have to indicate this code when contacting
the card center by using it as your subject.
Now contact our ATM center Manager for more detail
We Wait For Your Expedite Response

Yours in Service,
Mr. James Wang
International Settlement Dept.
International Monetary Fund



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