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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: "Rev. Alex Dakora" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rev.dakora@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 05:31:53 -0800
Subject: Your dream has come true!!!

From Desk of Mr. Rev Alex H. Dakora
World Bank/IMF Independent Evaluation Office
Department: External Audit/Debt Settlement.
Our Ref: WKIMF-25PEG

ATTENTION: Distinguished beneficiary,

Our independent financial security monitory networks 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 easement by the IMF and World Bank global financial stability board 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 Henceforth, this is your payment reference number (WBIMF BVT ID:644771), 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.

We have also been confirmed the responsibility of releasing all unclaimed inheritance foreign payment transactions respectively.
Therefore, it will be imperative if you listen to the voice of wisdom and stop chasing shadows. Please ask yourself why after all the fees paid to those crooks nothing was given back to you or have you taught why each time you send money they will come up demanding for another fee which will continue until you are bankrupt.

Answer all the above questions and get back to this office as soon as possible, we are trying to save you from further extortion in the hands of those impersonators. You will not be disappointed if actually you will believe us; this is different from your previous dealings. I know you must have been humiliated in the past, but kindly find a place in your heart to forget all the intimidation and trauma suffered in the hands of those crooks.

We have discovered there illicit oppression through our secret imposed agents, you will never receive one dollar cent outside the World Bank because we have signed agreement with the Federal Bureau of investigation, United Nations and the entire American government to handle this payment ourselves.
For official clarity and final reconciliation, I would like you to re-confirm to us the following;

Your Full Name:
Your Full Address:
Direct Phone or Mobile,
Profession, Age and Marital .

Upon satisfactory receipt of the above mentioned, you will be further acquainted with the detailed payment proceedings on how best to confirm your fund within the next 48 hours.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

With regards,
Mr. Mr. Rev Alex H. Dakora
Exec. Payment Director/Special Envoy.

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