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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: "mrsshellyann@gmail.com" <mrsshellyanna@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsshellyanna@live.com
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:26:29 +0000
Subject: TOP SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Office of the Special Representative to the UN.
Head quarters,


Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to intimate you of a very important information which will be
of great help to redeem you from all the difficulties you have been
experiencing in getting your
long overdue payment due to excessive demand for money from you by
both corrupt Bank officials and Courier Companies after which your
fund remains unpaid to you.

I write to confess what you are presently going through with our
Officials . I was a member of the International payment department
on Local and Foreign Debt attached to the World Bank office in
Washington DC, USA. I resigned my official duty when I discovered the
activities of my colleagues during a private investigation I carried
out. I suspected some kind of foul play in their act which they would
never inform me of because they know I would never be a party to such
an act.

I discovered that officials were conniving with some top officials to
divert funds approved to settle International contractors and
Inheritance payments/ lottery winners. The World Bank has already
given approval for the payment of your fund while they are
deliberately delaying your payment. They continue to issue one fee or
the other from different quarters. I wonder why you haven't noticed
all this while. I can assure you this will keep happening if you do
not do away with those officers. The officials handling the payment
are not aware of this act because they are novice to what is happening
as it has to do with the top notch in the Government of United States.

Well I just hope you believe me, because if you don't, your fund is
gone. Your fund is currently authorized to be paid , approved by the
World Bank with a Key Tested Reference/CLAIMS CODE Number, which was
supposed to have been issued to you, but they have decided to divert
your attention by telling you that they have something to do with one
committee or the other especially here in United States and making
you believe that the fund will be transferred into your account -
FALSE! The reason I am giving you this information is because of the
fact that I was aware of it and my doctrine does not permit me to
withhold such information. The only help you can get from me now, is
that you plead with them to pay your fund here through Bank America,
which I know they will not agree.If you agree with me by keeping this
to yourself, I will advise you on what you will do to get your fund
without delay. This is the only way you can get out of the bondage of
diverting your fund and frustrating your effort at the end of the day
to inherit your fund by the top government officials.

Please do not give this information to any Office handling your
Payment at this point as it may lead to them influencing a total
blockage to your payment, so you have to be very careful with this
information. Upon your response to this message, I shall give you more
advise on how to go about it.


Regards,

Mrs Shelly Anna McMahan.

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