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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: "AN.R.IMF" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <imfscottrogers@yandex.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 03:02:15 -0500
Subject: IMF NOTFICQTION&&éé

DIRECTOR,AFRICA REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE (IMF)
9 HON. JUSTICE MOHAMMED BELLO ST
ASOKORO ABUJA FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.
E-MAIL: AN.R.IMF@

Attention: Sir / Madam ,

My office received several reports from Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and your Email ID was discovered amongst those who have been scammed by fraudsters from Africa especially from Nigeria. We hereby bring to your notice that the Nigeria Government is using this opportunity to compensate the entire victim who have been scammed either by loan bidders, next of kin and also to those who have not been notified about there (inheritance payment), cause by the inadequate agent involve.


We have decided to contact you in case you don't know the (IC3). The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) to serve as a means to receive Internet related criminal complaints and to further research, develop, and refer the criminal complaints to federal, state, local, or international law enforcement and regulatory agencies for any investigation they deem to be appropriate.

Their website is http://www.ic3.gov

In response to the report, we have concluded our investigation and we have agreed to reimburse you with the sum of USD$10.5Million United States dollar either by KTT wire transfer, via ATM MASTER CARD or you can as well open online account with our approved paying bank. Note: do not respond to emails which ask you to send your user-name and password for any reason as these are means of hacking into your email account to steal from you.

Do send my desk the following information's for Your claim.
Your full Name
Your Present Resident Address
Your Personal And Reachable Phone Number:
Your Occupation:………………………………………………
Your Age:…………………………………………………………
IDENTIFICATION, IT COULD BE PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE OR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT.
Sex:
Married or Single?------------------
YOUR BANK DETAILS

REGARDS,
MR. W. SCOTT ROGERS.
DIRECTOR,AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE (IMF).

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