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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: "David Hawley" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <imforg.eric@linuxmail.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 21:00:12 +0800
Subject: IMF-INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

External Relations Department
700 19th Street, N.W, Washington
D.C. International Monetary Fund
20431, USA
www.imf.org

Attention:Beneficiary,


2013 GLOBAL FINANCIAL REPORT (GFR)

-----------Private/Individual look up-------------

The IMF is mandated to oversee the international monetary system and monitor the economic and financial policies of its 188 member countries. This activity is known as surveillance. As part of this process, which takes place both at the global level and in individual countries, the IMF highlights possible risks to stability and advises on needed policy adjustments. In this way, it helps the international monetary system serve its essential purpose of facilitating the exchange of goods,services, and capital among countries, thereby sustaining sound economic growth for both Individuals and Corporate bodies.

The International Monetary Fund Individual Financial Surveillance Team have noticed some lapses while auditing our Individual Master File record, Individual Master File (IMF) consists of a series of runs, data records and files. The IMF receives individual Financial transaction records from Commercial banks all over the world in electronic format and processes them through a pre-posting phase, posts the transactions, analyses the transactions, and produces output in the form of Refund Data, Notice Data, Reports, and information feeds to other entities. IMF is the authoritative data source for individual tax & Corporate Body Financial data, but it is updated annually to incorporate new Global Financial law procedures and changes.

Our verification on the difficulties you have been experiencing in getting your long overdue payment due to excessive demand for money from you by both corrupt Bank officials and Financial institutions whom you have been dealing with during the process of your claims have been concluded positively, to this effect your payment has been moved to the Desk of the Financial Counselor, Mr. Eric Jose to resolve and ensure your payment is being remitted to you without further delay.

For further Inquiries, (Kindly contact):
MR. ERIC JOSE
Email: imforg.eric@linuxmail.org
Director/Financial Counselor
Monetary & Capital Markets Department
International Monetary Fund
Washington D.C. 20431, USA

Kindly ensure you contact Mr. Eric Jose upon receipt of this email, for further guidance on your fund release as soon as possible. We need your urgent attention to this email.

Best Regards
David Hawley
Deputy Director

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