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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: "imffbi-un" <imffbi-unorg@imffbi.org>
Reply-To: imffbi-unorg@mailbox.co.za
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:51:48 +0200
Subject: YOUR FUND RELEASE ORDER.


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 Bu=
reau of Investigation {FBI} that, some amount of money was transferred to y=
ou, but has not reached to your designated account.
On the directives and instructions of the of the International Monetary Fu=
nd (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 give=
n an intensive automate and mandate to make sure that the fund should be re=
leased 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/ne=
xt-of-kin/for inheritance and as well as a victim of scam for compensation.
In the course of the investigation over the transfer of the fund to you, i=
t 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 inabil=
ity to meet the transfer fees you were charged for the transfer options (TE=
LEGRAPHIC-WIRE-TRANSFER). And this reason led to your fund being STOPPED an=
d was placed ON-HOLD to be returned to its origin pending the final investi=
gations by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. During the course of our i=
nvestigation, it was discovered to our dismay that your fund transferred ha=
d 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 agenc=
ies in conjunction with FBI, have intervened in your case and have decided =
and ordered the release of your fund to you. We have established communicat=
ions with the country of origin of the fund after due diligence over the fu=
nd. Instruction was made after (The HSBC Bank London) was charged of $1.92 =
Billion dollars Settlement Charges of financial misconducts and banking irr=
egularities as published in this-website (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/=
12/10/hsbc-said-to-near-1-9-billion-settlement-over-money-laundering/) of w=
hich every fund from Asia, Africa, Middle-East, Europe and USA, has been re=
patriated to the South African reserve bank (SARB) for proper claims and re=
lease.
WARNING: You are hereby with immediate effect advised and warned not to fu=
rther your communications with those individuals whom you have been communi=
cating to/with, prior to receiving of this message as to avoid divulging of=
any vital information until your fund reaches your account destination. St=
op Your Communications With Them, Immediately.
IMPORTANT AND URGENT INFORMATION: We have communicated to the Foreign Paym=
ents/Remittance department/Unit of Standard Bank of South Africa and instru=
cted them to engage you with the necessary requirements as to release and c=
redit your fund. Of which they have sent their bank's legal contact detail=
s, which will be sent to you to contact them once a response has been recei=
ved from you based on this notification.
Do not hesitate to get back to me should you have any difficulties in unde=
rstanding this message.
Sincerely,
Ms. Graca Makhathini
Direct Email: imffbi-unorg@mailbox.co.za
Direct Phone: +1-7-62-208-3005, +1-40-739-21445
=3DPublicity Secretary to the Director General of the IMF=3D

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