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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: "IMFFBIUN OFFICE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <imffbi-unorg@mailbox.co.za>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:00:39 +0200
Subject: Urgent Last Notification!!!46

ATTENTION: Beneficiary
This Notice was initially sent to you a month ago, but until now, you have not responded. This is on the bases of the investigations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation {FBI} that, some amount of money was transferred to you, but has not reached to your designated account.
On the directives and instructions of the of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) www.imf.org and www.worldbank.org  World Bank's President (Mr. Jim Yong Kim), the Inland Revenue Services Department of England has been given an intensive automate and mandate to make sure that the fund should be released to the beneficiaries. It has been verified and clarified by the FBI, that the amount of $10.5m (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) was transferred in payments with your names as the beneficiary/next-of-kin/for inheritance and as well as a victim of scam
In the course of the investigation over the transfer of the fund to you, it was observed that the fund in question ($10.5mil USD) has not reached to your account destination due to obstacles and issues related to your inability to meet the transfer fees you were charged for the transfer options (TELEGRAPHIC-WIRE-TRANSFER). And this reason led to your fund being STOPPED and was placed ON-HOLD to be returned to its origin pending the final investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. During the course of our investigation, it was discovered to our dismay that your fund transferred had been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt Bank officials attempting to divert your funds to their private accounts all for the purpose of their business interests and to rip you of.
Finally, the US Department of the Treasury and her relevant research agencies in conjunction with FBI, have intervened in your case and have decided and ordered the release of your fund to you. We have established communications with the country of origin of the fund after due diligence over the fund. Instruction was made after (The HSBC Bank London) was charged of $1.92 Billion dollars Settlement Charges of financial misconducts and banking irregularities as published in this-website (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/hsbc-said-to-near-1-9-billion-settlement-over-money-laundering/) of which every fund from Asia, Africa, Middle-East, Europe and USA, has been repatriated to th e South African reserve bank (SAR
WARNING: You are hereby with immediate effect advised and warned not to further your communications with those individuals whom you have been communicating to/with, prior to receiving of this message as to avoid divulging of any vital information until your fund reaches your account destination. Stop Your Communications With Them, Immediately.
IMPORTANT AND URGENT INFORMATION: We have communicated to the Foreign Payments/Remittance department/Unit of Standard Bank of South Africa and instructed them to engage you with the necessary requirements as to release and credit your fund.  Of which they have sent their bank's legal contact details, which will be sent to you to contact them once a response has been received from you based on this notification.
Do not hesitate to get back to me should you have any difficulties in understanding this message.
Sincerely,
Ms. Graca Makhathini
Direct Email:   imffbi-unorg@mailbox.co.za
Direct Phone: +1-7-62-208-3005, +1-40-739-21445
=Publicity Secretary to the Director General of the IMF=

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