419 scam: "Mrs Christine Lagarde"<amy@acula.com.tw> INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "transfer of your funds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- frederickhsing@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Christine Lagarde" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hsingfrederick2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:40:40 -0700
Subject: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

>From The Office Of Christine Lagarde Director,International Monetary Fund.Washington, D.C. 20431

Greetings of The day

I am Mrs Christine Lagarde, the Director of compensation Payment for the IMF.After proper investigations, we discovered that your impending payment that have been withheld by impostors have been transferred to Central State Bank here in the United States of America.

Investigations revealed that you have not been able to receive this
funds,because you do not trust the legitimacy of this transaction or you have not been given proper guidelines on how to go about receiving your funds.

The IMF has giving authority to the Central State Bank to assist the Federal Ministry of Finance and all the organization involved; such as the Central bank and Legit lottery organizations to immediately commence with the compensation of all the beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of their funds. With the help of some of the best Internet investigators attached to the United Nations, we traced your information from the Internet as one of the beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of funds to your nominated account.

I am pleased to inform you that you have a total of 1,650,000 US DOLLARS WITH THE BANK in Florida FOR TRANSFER OF YOUR FUNDS TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.Please note that you are going to set up an Online account with the bank to enable them complete your transfer.

Contact Mr.Frederick Hsing

Online transfer,Center State bank USA.

Email: frederickhsing@gmail.com

YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION:
FULL NAME:
HOUSE ADDRESS:
CELLPHONE NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:

Mrs Christine Lagarde
Director International Monetary Funds,
Washington Dc

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