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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: "Ryan Andrew" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <unitedcreditb@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:39:53 +0100
Subject: Re: Re: Good News

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)
Office Address:# 1 Queen Caroline Road,
Manchester, W6 9HQ London– United Kingdom.
(REF:GML-S343-KKT-8811 and BAT:56T-DTH78 ZA99)
Telephone: +44 201 367 498 +44 701 00 2138.

Attention: My Dear,

My name is Mr. Ryan John Andrew, I am a British Citizen working with IMF Africa before I was posted from Republic of Benin to London–United Kingdom last week at the International Monetary Fund as I was there to monitor the fraudulent activities of some of the officials at the payment office in West Africa.

Before I left Benin last week, I observed a floating payment of $800,000.00 dollars in your name as IMF Poverty Eraducation Programme for 2013 -2015 as a supervisor then I decided to secretly pick your payment document and droped with a reliable person before I depart for UK.

So I urge you to immediately contact the below person in Africa to get your payment benefit before you loss it invain.

Foreign Payment Credit Centre
C/36, Zone Fifa, Cotonou,
Republic of Benin West Africa
Tel: +229 65 03 27 5
E-mail: jgbeholo@gmail.com
Contact Person: Mr. Jules Gbeholo (Director Credit Unit)

You must contact him all the way to re-claim your payment before it's declare unclaimed and channel to there personal packet.

Yours faithful.
Mr. Ryan J. Andrew.
Financial Counselor and Director
Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF.

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