419 scam: "International Monetary Fund"<debtclearingoffice@imf.org> FINAL SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM.

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "with your full names" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2349099321908 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "International Monetary Fund" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <debtclearingunitimf102@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:16:05 +0100
Subject: FINAL SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND(IMF)/WORLD BANK
DEBT SETTLING AND CLEARING UNIT,FEDERAL TREASURY DEPARTMENT
PLOT 273 HERBERT MACAULAY,AVENUE,WUSE 2 GARKI ABUJA NIGERIA.
FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY(FCT).

RE: OFFSETTING ALL OVER DUE FOREIGN PAYMENTS FLOATING IN THE TREASURY(IMF).

Dear Friend,

I have sent several emails to you and you refused to respond to any of the emails till date.
I AM PLEASED TO INFORM YOU ONCE AGAIN THAT THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND(IMF)/WORLD BANK HAS FINALLY GRANTED,APPROVED AND RELEASED FUND TO OFFSET ALL OVER DUE FOREIGN PAYMENTS IN THIS FINANCIAL FISCAL YEAR 2014,This decision was taken after the annual International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank (WB) summit held in Tanzania last week.The Anti Fraud Unit of the United Nations is assigned to monitor this payment closely to help stabilize world economic challenges and reduce the effect of depressing/recession in payments as well as clearing the withheld funds floating in World Bank Credit database(credit registries)without exploitation.

It was also alarmed in the meeting that some officials at the Central Bank of Nigeria have tried in the past to pay you in Cash,through Diplomatic means to your Country but failed to deliver because they were interested in their selfish interest and deviated from the procedures of delivery movement which attracted a massive sack on them.

We have widely informed our dear International communities especially our contractors to be very careful and ignore any email they receive from any body who may claim to work with Central Bank of Nigeria for payments,because CBN as an Apex bank is only allowed to deal with banks and not with individuals or companies,therefore any communication from the CBN asking for payment should be completely considered as SCAM.

You are being contacted because your name and email appeared among the beneficiaries approved to receive their fund via ATM card as officially agreed and approved by International Monetary Fund (IMF) as recommended by the United Nations(UN)and the US department of treasury.This decision was amicably agreed and signed by the above members to safeguard your fund and protect you from being scammed.If you the beneficiary would adhere to this helpful solution and keep every information of your payment stated herein secret.

However an account has been opened for you by our paying bank(Zenith Bank Plc)where your approved sum of $12.5M was lodged and loaded in your favor to be withdrawn by you with a programmed atm card that will be given to you bearing your name on it with four(4)digit Pin Code Number which you will use to withdraw your loaded fund from Any ATM MACHINE of your choice any where in the world,until the total fund loaded in your account is completely paid to you.

Kindly get back to me immediately with your Full names,address,telephone numbers and copy of your ID so that we can have a chat over this issue as I arrange to ship your Atm card to you at your door step without any delay or hitch.
We sincerely apologize for what you have gone through in the past as the Federal Government has stopped remittance of any fund via (KTT) bank to bank transfers as a result of the dastardly incidence of diversion of people's fund for drugs and terrorist sponsor.

Call me immediately on +234-909-9321-908.

Yours faithfully

Mr Dickson Joel.
Director Debt clearing/Settlement unit(IMF).

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