419 scam: "Mrs.Christine Lagarde" <"www."@opal.ocn.ne.jp> ATTTENTION

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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 state 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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- davidfletchers@mail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Christine Lagarde" <"www."@opal.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs.Christine Lagarde" <DavidFletchers@mail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:25:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTTENTION

Attn: From IMF Office

Good Day!

We the International Monetary Fund IMF, Investigation Bureau
Department in conjunction with other relevant Investigation agencies,
we hereby to inform you that we recently received several reports
through our Global intelligence monitoring networks that you had a
transaction in Europe, Africa and Asia which wasn't accomplished after
series of process and requires further procedures. Consequently we
finally traced the location of your overdue compensation funds and
ordered the dispatch or transmitting of the funds to a safe custody.
OraBank Benin Republic, hence the mentioned Bank institute will be
facilitating the transferring of the funds to you as soon as possible,
this decision was made due to the rate of corruption and scam reports
perpetrated by Individuals and Government offices, companies in
UK,Europe,Asia,Africa therefore your funds was ordered to be moved or
transferred to safe Bank immediately for safety.

The transmission of the funds to OraBank Benin Republic was
successfully executed today and we just received a confirmation from
the OraBank Benin Republic that the funds valued the sum of $10.5M Ten
Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars was received by the
Bank management, therefore we are officially contacting you in this
regard by letting you know that your funds are presently at OraBank
Benin Republic.

Your fund was securely entrusted to OraBank Plc in Cotonou, Benin
Republic today under a special supervision of Mr. David Fletchers an
experienced OraBank official who is to be conducting your payment
henceforth. Therefore you are advised to contact the Bank
representative with the information outlined below;

OraBank Benin Republic
Contact Person: Mr. David Fletchers
E-mail: DavidFletchers@mail.com

Furthermore identification code EGZOXHXTFRDWBG was issued by OraBank
management which you are required to indicate by using it as the
subject of your email for verification or easy identification and the
following information are also required;

Your personal profile:

Profession---------
Full Names-----------
Age--------------------
Home/Office address----------
Current Phone number#-----------

Finally you are advised to completely terminate all your conversation
or correspondent with any other individual, authority or office in
UK,Europe,Asia, who claims to be in the custody of your funds because
your funds was officially directed to ORABANK today under our
instructions therefore you should completely quit all conversations
with any other individual or group except the OraBank Benin Republic.
Comply with all their instruction and directives accordingly and they
will transfer your funds without any delay.

Warmest regards
Mrs.Christine Lagarde
Managing Director IMF.

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