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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: "Christine Largade" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <patrick.duffyhsbc@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 23:02:12 +0100
Subject: (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) 24/7 TRACKING)

From: Christine Largade
President IMF,Washington DC
 
 
We the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Investigation Bureau Washington,DC in conjunction with other relevant Investigation agencies ,we wish to inform you that we recently received several reports through our Global intelligence monitoring network that you have a transaction in Africa which wasn't accomplished after series of process and required procedures.
 
Consequently we finally scheduled the dispatch of your funds to the HSBC,WA USA for easy transfer of this funds to your account without hitches, this decision was made due to the rate of corruption and scam reports perpetrated by Individuals, Offices and Government, therefore your funds was ordered to be moved or transferred to United State immediately.
 
 
The transfer of the fund to HSBC,WA USA was successfully executed on Friday and we just received a confirmation from the HSBC,WA USA that the fund valued the sum of US$2,700,000.00 (Two Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) was received by the Bank Management, therefore we are official contacting you in this regard letting you know that your funds are presently at HSBC,WA USA
 
 
Therefore you are advised to contact them immediately with the information outlined below: HSBC,WA USA Contact Person:
 
 
Mr. Patrick Duffy
E-mail: patrick.duffyhsbc@gmail.com
 
 
Furthermore, you are expecting to Identify your self with this code of conduct (CO90991031), this code was given by the General Manager of the Bank this morning for verification or easy identification so you must use it include your email. You will be recognized as soon as you send this code, your full name and address to the bank's email address stated above
 
 
Finally, you are advised to completely terminated all your conversation with any other individual, authority or office in Africa who claims to be in custody of your funds because your funds was official transferred to United States on Friday under our instructions. You completely quit all conversations with any other individual or group except the HSBC,WA USA. Comply with all their instruction and direction accordingly and they will transfer your funds without any delay
 
 
Christine Largade
Yours sincerely
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Investigation Bureau Washington, DC

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