419 scam: "Director Christine Lagarde"<info@maap.edu.ph> Re: International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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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:
- "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
- "fund beneficiary" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <info.2015compensation15@instruction.com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 20:51:32 +0200
Subject: Re: International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Monetary Fund
Managing Director Christine Lagarde
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 2043

Our Ref:IMF-54PAY-8MN-COMP!

Re: COMPENSATION PAYMENT NOTIFICATION FROM IMF.

Attn Fund Beneficiary

This is to officially notify you that we have mandated the Barclays Bank of England to release your long overdue compensation fund valued Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars, through Bank to Bank Wire Transfer Method of payment.

The reason of releasing your fund to you through your account was as a result of the financial security meeting we had some days ago, in other to forestall sanity and protect you from further occurrences of spending your fund to criminal who keep telling you that your fund will be release through Nigeria, which is totally scam reputations, and not in accordance with this compensations exercise.

However, one's you contacted the paying Bank as instructed then you will have nothing to be afraid of, hence they have been mandated officially United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) IN COLLABORATION WITH INTERNATIONAL MONETARY (FUND IMF)to release your unpaid fund with immediate effect.

However, we have issued the paying Bank with Certificate of International Capital Transfer to enable them perfect this transaction this time without any hitch. But surprisingly on friday, we received an email from Mrs. JOYCE D.GILL who claimed to be your representative and forwarded the following account information to our office demanding us to compel the paying Bank to setup an online account for her so that your fund can be transfer into below account as your representative.

These are details of the bank account she provided to IMF, advice us with your full details to enable us direct you to the paying Bank.

Bank of America
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Mrs. Mrs.JOYCE D. GILL
Account# 003767127210
Routing # 063170399
68 Jabotinsky St\#4
Ramat Gan, ISRAEL 546567

Yours truly,

Managing Director Christine Lagarde
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20431
Tel: 219-214-1172
Email: Christine.imf.director@instruction.com

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