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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 COMPERSATION UNIT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <imfpayoffice2010@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 04:47:34 +0800
Subject: IMF SETTLEMENT NOTIFICATION

International Settlement Dept.
Room 3612, China World Tower 2,
No. 1 Jianguomenwai Avenue
Beijing 100004 , P.R. China


ATM/WUP Compensation Payment Notification

Attention Dear Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that the International Fund Reconciliation Committee has decided to release all compensation funds to their beneficiaries through this year 2010 poverty alleviation scheme. In regards to this, we wish to inform you that your ATM won compensation funds valued at US$700.000,00 (Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) has been authorized to be released to you through our corresponding financial institution in China.

Meanwhile, one Mr. Sam Lucas came to our office few days ago with a letter of authorization, claiming to be your true representative who has been sent on behalf of you to claim funds. Find below his bank information's and confirm to this office if this person is truly from you or an imposter. This is to avoid false payment to wrong beneficiary:

BANK NAME: BANK OF AMERICA,
ACCOUNT NAME: SAM LUCAS
ROUTING NUMBER: 052028906
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 233012734259
SWIFT CODE: BOFAUS3N
BANK ADDRESS: MARIETTA, GA 30064, USA

BENEFICIARY SELECTION PROCESS

No tickets were sold out. Your email is one of the lucky emails/ATM Card users selected RANDOMLY via E-wheel Computer Ballot System drawn from over 200,000 companies and 300,000 individual email/ATM card users, from all over the world during the ATM Online EMAIL selection Draw

In the mean time we have been mandated to issue out this payment via our swift card payment centers, which is the latest technology powered by the ATM Inc and the World Union Pay (WUP). This World Union Pay card will be uploaded with your fund and couriered to your location via speed post and a tracking number issued to you to enable you track your parcel till it gets to its final destination. This card can be used 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.
Room 3612, China World Tower 2,
No. 1 Jianguomenwai Avenue
Beijing 100004, P.R. China
Email imfpayoffice2010@gmail.com
CONTACT PERSON: Mr. JAMES WONG

Required information:
1. Full Name
2. Phone and Fax Number
3.Home Address and (P.O Box Not
Acceptable)
4. Your Age and Current Occupation
5. Country:

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 (ATM-3714) 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 details.
We Wait For Your Expedite Response.


Yours in Service,
Mrs. Jia Rong

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