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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: Andrew Tweedie <info@lee.org>
Reply-To: imf.org_a@yahoo.com
Date: 21 Nov 2018 14:29:34 -0800
Subject: Re: Dear Beneficiary; Mr/Mrs/Ms

Finance/Remittance Department Director
Int'l. Wire Transfer/Telex Department,
International Monetary Fund,(IMF).

ATTN Beneficiary,


I hope this email meets you in good state of mind. Quite frankly,
after a serious thought, I have decided to personally reach you
directly because I do not have anything against you, but your so
called representatives working with you to realize the remittance
of your payment. However, have you ever wondered why you have
been going this vicious circle over the past years with respect
to having your fund paid to you without any success. It is
possible that you were informed that your payment was brought to
me for finalization, neither were you informed that I am the
person frustrating every move to get your fund remitted to your
local bank account in your country, I can assure you that this
yet another deceit on the part of your representative(s).

Well, like I said earlier to you, I have nothing against you or
your payment but I’m only trying to protect my interest also. I
do not want to mention names here, but am certain you are aware
of whom I am referring to having not received your funds.

I am the Finance/Remittance Department Director, International
Wire Transfer/Telex Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
your funds conveyor. Sometime in the past a representative of
yours approached me through a friend of mine who works with one
of the Government Ministries here and requested that I assist him
conclude a money transfer deal having you as the beneficiary and
we all agreed. According to him, he wanted to use this strategy
to transfer a huge amount of US Dollars by presenting your name
as Beneficiary Whose fund has not been paid.

Although we agreed that once I did that, he would give me 20% of
the total fund and he will equally give me your contact
information before I release the fund to your account. When he
saw that I have programmed your fund for onward transfer and your
name has been approved among the list of those to be paid as
instead of him letting me have your contact information to enable
me regulate the transfer of funds and confirm when it arrive in
your account to enable me send to you my private account details
for my share of the 20% as was agreed previously, what he does
was to start avoiding me and which thereafter, resorted to
threats, because of that, I immediately deleted your payment
initializing code (PIC) from the list of those to be paid, and
this made it very IMPOSSIBLE for the transfer to be completed to
your account.

However, he your local representative became very angry when he
came to discovere I was able to truncate his illicit and
deceitful plots and it could not work out as he wrongly wished.
What he did was to start looking for other means of trying to
bribe other junior officers along with some other financial
agencies to see how they could assist him secure approval to
enable them transfer the money to you but all their efforts was
to no avail. Is it not so funny my good friend that you as a
beneficiary is being asked to pay several statutory fees over and
over without your fund being transferred to you as well expected.
Well, your fund is right here with us and am 100% responsible for
the delay and obstructions of completing the transfer of funds to
your account because of the breach of the gentleman agreement
between me and your representative. If you doubt what I have just
told you now, then go ahead and pay any amount he may oblige you
pay and thereafter, he will subject you into another form of tax
payment and it goes on and on WITHOUT SUCCESS

(I). You must keep my information to you in this correspondence
highly secret because I don't want to get involve with he, your
local representative again in my life and I will have 10% of the
money if successfully transfers to your local bank account
because it is only two of us in connection to logical remittance
of the fund to you.

(ii). You MUST assure me that you will not betray me at last and
my own share will be safe until when I will redirect you to
lodged my part of the fund into an account that i will forward to
you.

(iii) As you have seen, it will be useless and mere waste of
money if you continue with your local representative and i can
assure you that with trust and confidence we will conclude the
transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality if you wish
to adhere to my directives and instructions. If these conditions
are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as possible to let us
finalize all the arrangement and conclude the remittance of the
fund to you immediately without any other delay attached.

I will give you more important details once I hear from you based
on if you promise to keep away from your local representative and
handle this matter with utmost confidentiality because I want to
transfer the money without the knowledge of any other official of
the bank or even without the knowledge of your local
representative.

May the peace of our Jesus Christ be upon you.

Faithfully Yours in Him.

Andrew Tweedie.
Finance/Remittance Department Director,
International Monetary Funds, (IMF).

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