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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 IMFSC Joint Venture London." <email@imfsettlementcenterlondon.tk>
Reply-To: info@imfsettlementcenterlondon.tk
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:02:21 +0530
Subject: Re: COMPENSATION SETTLEMENT OF ESCROW ACCOUNTS.




Office of Reconciliation and Logistics Vaults,
International Monetary Fund (IMF),
Washington D.C 20431
USA.
Phone: (903) 890 2613
From the desk of:
Sir Jeremy Matt Hamilton
International Settlement Dept London.
IMF IMFSC Joint Venture London.


Re: COMPENSATION SETTLEMENT OF ESCROW ACCOUNTS.

Attention Beneficiary:

It is a pleasure to write you that we have reconciled with our
logistic department on the reimbursement of some fund spent by you
during the cause of your inadequate dealings with some impostors who
claim to be staff in banks and other regional payment centers. Our
reconciliation teams with the prospectus instrument of the United
Nations after freezing suspected impostors account, most accounts were
dormant and claims to be fund of late patrons, ex-politician etc.

This support was fully effective with the help of World Bank after a
summit meeting in Greece, on their financial analysis on financial
stability issues fluctuating their economy with the international
global standard.

After gathering of this sum, our logistic department gave us a list of
customers to be paid who fall victims to this imposters due to
unawareness. And mode of payment was as well specified for proper
conducts and financial regulations to kick against criminality during
process of payment. We have arranged your payment through our swift
card centers, which is the latest instruction from International
Monetary Fund Reconciliation Office.

The card center will send you an ATM Debit card which you will use to
withdraw your money in any ATM Center, Banks and Union Pay Credit
outlets in the world, You are hereby selected as an honor for this
payment approval, which you are to acknowledge the receipt of this
mail in returning the required below to the Logistic Department by
email listed below.

Sir Jeremy Matt Hamilton
Director, IMF SETTLEMENT UNIT
London, United Kingdom.
Phone: +447924514432
Email: info@imfsettlementcenterlondon.tk


1. Full Name
2. Mobile and Fax Number
3. Your age and Current Occupation
4. Contact Address where you want your ATM Card to the delivered to
(P.O Box Not Acceptable)

In the mean time we have been mandated to issue out this payment via
this scheme due to the financial fiscal audit and budget year 2010
against the World Financial and Economic crisis in Greek. 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. Because of Impostors, we hereby issued you our code of
conduct, which is (ATM-7750) so you have to indicate this code when
contacting the Card Center by using it as your subject. For more
detailing contact our ATM Center Manager for more details.

Yours in Service,
Sir Jeremy Matt Hamilton
Director
International Settlement Dept London.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)


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