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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: "UNITED STATE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <oliverjames650@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:31:47 -0500
Subject: UNITED STATE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND


International Monetary Fund,
1900 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington, DC, 20431

Attention Beneficiary!!

I am Mr. Jones Robinson Director in charge of the compensation funds to scam victims from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It may interest you to know that reports have reached our office by so many correspondence on the uneasy way which people like you are treated by Various Banks and Courier Companies across Europe to Africa and Asia and we have decided to put a stop to that and that is why the IMF was appointed to monitor your transaction here in Africa and Europe from the (IMF) that your compensation funds gets to you.

After proper investigations and research at Western Union Money Transfer and
Money Gram office to know if you have truly sent money to the scam
Syndicates through Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram, your name was
found in Western Union Money Transfer database amongst those that have sent
money through Western Union Money Transfer to Nigeria.

In view of the determination and commitment of this New Government to ensure that every outstanding foreign beneficiaries debts are settled, but to our greatest dismay, despite all the effort made last year to ensure that most foreign beneficiaries receive their payment, record still show that a lot of foreign beneficiaries did not receive their payment due to their inability to settle some outstanding up-front obligation to the Federal Government.
You have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money
to them in the course of getting one fund or the other that is not real,
right now the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is Monitoring all Compensation funds.
In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
investigations it was agreed that you will be compensated.
by the Federal Government of Nigeria which has set aside as a compensation to everyone who have
by one way or the other sent money to fraudsters in Nigeria.and those not in Nigeria would be paid by he UNITED NATIONS in the United Kingdom

The below website can be more reference:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4320984.stm

NAME:............................................
ADDRESS:...........................................
OCCUPATION:..........................................
TELEPHONE NUMBER:....................................


Inform them about this notification letter and the transfer of your
fund;and if you were not scammed from Nigeria your request would be transferred to the paying Organization

Yours sincerely,
Oliver James
Director In Charge,
International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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