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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: "From USA IMF Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <finalcreditoffice@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 03:50:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Your Overdue INTEREST PAYMENT

International Monetary Fund Investigation Unit (IMF) USA
Address: 55 East 52nd Street 21st Floor New York,
NY 10022. United States
Phone No: +1-347-973-8172,

Attention: Beneficiary

This is all about your overdue ACCRUED INTEREST payment from Africa wish has been on hold here in
United State not to get to your account due to the instruction giving to us by the president of Nigeria,
he made it clear to us that any transfer coming from Nigeria without Irrevocable Presidential Permit (IPP)
from his vice, has to be STOP, till he issue the beneficiary the Irrevocable Presidential Permit(IPP),
this IPP document will also make it clear to all the USA government , Europe and Asia Governments agents
that the transferred fund is free from Money Laundering, Anti Drug Money been an Inheritance/Contract
ACCRUED INTEREST payment of $1, 000,000.00 (One million United State Dollars).

I hereby advice you to contact the Vice President of Nigeria to obtain the Irrevocable Presidential Permit
(IPP) from him as soon as you have this document from him we will immediately release the fund to your
account without any delay.

I will advise you to contact him now on the information below to obtain the Irrevocable Presidential Permit
(IPP), to enable us release the fund to you account or have a Bank Draft deliver to your address,
make sure you reconfirm this your payment notification code to him: Ref: CBN/00672/2014, Registration
No: 009/5632/2014, Payment Code: 011003889, also contact him with your full address and phone number.

Name: Mr. Mohammed Namadi Sambo
Vice President Federal Republic of Nigeria
Phone Number: +234-812-603-6625
Email: vicepresident0097@yahoo.com

For the fact that your fund has arrive here in USA you don’t have any problem, I give you 100% assurance
that once you obtain the IPP document you will have your fund in your account within 48hours.

Kindly contact him and get back to us with the IPP document, you can call us on +1-347-973-8172, doing
the New York working time.

Thanks for your Understanding.

SINCERELY,
Mr. Smith Everett
IMF, Foreign payment department
Phone No: +1-347-973-8172

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