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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: <u10@nations.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <claimsdepartments49@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 07:10:18 -0500
Subject: Truth About Your Funds/Thank God I've Found You.

Distinguished True Beneficiary,

Our independent financial security monitory agents have just confirmed your dealings with some unauthorized impersonated staffs of various existing and non-exiting government organizations operating from different offices, we are contacting you today because we are taking over your Online Safety, We all know that the rate of fraudsters and scammers online are so much that we all receive at least 80-100 hoax messages per day, all those stories are lies used by fraudsters to extort money from people.

We wish to congratulate and inform you that after a detailed review and due assessment by the IMF , UN and World Bank global financial stability board and the President of Republic of Nigeria, President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has constituted a 14 man investigative Panel and foreign Debts reconciliation committee, which I am the Chairman of the presidential committee saddled with the responsibility to investigate all the banks here in Nigeria.

As institutions to United Nations, the Debt Management has this office to liquidate all external creditors’ bills in this last quarter of fiscal year 2015 by cutting all foreign down to $6.8m to each beneficiary.

Henceforth, this is your payment reference number code of your consignment Box (WB-IMF PVA ID: 824707), As we have no option than to let it go through diplomatic way by using a Consignment Box through diplomatic way we advise you to stop further communications either by email, fax or telephone upon the receipt of this message or you might as well continue with them but please remember to note this phrase, you will never receive one dollar cent outside our organization since your payment release manifest booklet is registered under our abode.

I want to show you the only way that will enable you get your fund without any upfront charge or payment. "Waiver option WAP15" is the only thing that you will obtain with $300USD only and you will get the result which all the thousands of dollars you have spent have not given you.

By this I mean "Waiver option WAP15".This option allows you to apply and get all fees, charges, duties, levies and taxes that you are supposed to pay on your fund waived aside for you until you receive your Consignment Box.

Feel free to contact us now for the option you want your funds delivered to you either by Consignment Box of Money/International ATM Master Card or Bank to Bank wire transfer into your account let us no because any option you chose will be given to you immediately once you pay this $300 for waiver option WAP15, Guarantee is there once you make this payment and you did not get your funds 100% sure you will get your refund back without no delays.


Sincerely
Christine Lagarde
International Monetary Fund, CEO.

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