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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: Mr mathew Solomon <heavyheavyduty1ltd@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 13:44:37 +0100
Subject: IMF PENDING PAYMENT APPROVED

IMF PENDING PAYMENT APPROVED
>From I.M.F.MONITORING TEAM
African Regional Office
International Monetary Fund (I.M.F),


Beneficiary,

It has come to our notice in our Headquarters building (I.M.F) that
your impending funds from Africa, which was intercepted,has not been
released to you ,We noticed that you made several attempt to transfer
your funds but to no avail. Our investigation which continued to the
African Department office(I.M.F), gave an unsatisfactory report to
your transaction, hence the chairman is presently relieved of his post
for conspiracy with your representative with intention to divert your
funds.

You are advised to desist from contacting anyone including your agent
or representative in these regard, International Monetary Fund has
taken full responsibility to transfer your fund to you. we sincerely
apologize for this pain you may have gone through in the past but wish
to assure you there will never be any more repeat occurrence of what
transpired in the past. Be therefore inform it was on this premise
that the international monetary fund have decided to pay all aggrieved
beneficiary a compensatory sum of US$8,500 000(Eight million Five
hundred thousand United states dollars only)

Therefore, for the sake of expediency and the need to make this
feasible to your destination, you are hereby advise to respond to this
mail by providing the following information as stated below:

YOUR FULL NAME:
YOUR ADDRESS:
YOUR TEL/FAX NUMBER:
YOUR OCCUPATION:
SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT COPY OR DRIVERS LICENSE COPY

SEND REPLY TO THIS EMAIL: jonathanpeter881@yahoo.com

Regards,
Mr Peter Jonathan
African Regional Department Director

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