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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 Gary Palmeri<info@lee.org>
Reply-To: garypalmeri@outlook.com
Date: 20 Sep 2018 21:49:30 +0100
Subject: International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Attn: Fund Beneficiary: Payment Code: R578906K,

In the course of our General Auditing and Account revision for
the first quarter of the year 2018, it was discovered that Bank
Accounts belonging to some Beneficiaries have been changed on the
basis that the owners have died some time last year or have given
out an authorization note of change of data and other people are
trying to lay claims with false identifications with real
information’s.

After our investigations it was revealed that there are
foreigners who are collaborating with retired staffs to make
these changes illegally without the knowledge of the Bonafide
Beneficiaries and one traced to your own change is this Mr. Sean
Bradford from Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A who stated that you
are dead, hence he has forwarded some vital documents of funeral
service held for you so as to divert your fund worth $8.371
Million and working with some staffs of IMF, you are advised not
to release any info to anyone if you get this warning message.

He also forwarded the following Bank account details as the new
account that will receive your money but our information links
you as the beneficiary of this fund.


Account Name: Mr.Sean Bradford

Account No: 6110495 4021

Routing No: 011075150

Bank: Sovereign Bank

Bank Address: One Federal Street, Boston MA, 02110 U.S.A

Swift: SVRNUS33

But we wanted to confirm if actually this is true and hence
decided to write to your email address which after three (3) days
from now and there is no response, we will confirm that you are
dead indeed and go on with the transfer process. If proved
otherwise by you that you did not die, please forward to us the
entire related Beneficiary’s particulars including your Telephone
number, contact address.

These details from you will help us reach a conclusion that you
are not dead. Anything contrary to this claim will help us charge
this man to court and prosecute him while your fund will be paid
to you immediately without any further delay. You have to get
back to us on time for us to commence legal proceedings against
Mr.Sean Bradford and his accomplices.


Yours sincerely in service,


Mr Gary Palmeri.
Remittance Director.
International Remittance Dept.

International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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