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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: "(IFC) International Finance Corporation" <tednugentlogin@gmail.com>
Reply-To: asksustainabillityifc@mail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:32:55 -0700
Subject: IFC

Dear/Beneficiary,

This is the Assistant Managing Director of the (IFC) International Finance
Corporation.

The International Finance Corporation is an international financial
institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset management services
to encourage private-sector development in less developed countries. The
IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington,
D.C. in the United States.
This is to inform you officially that after our investigations with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
and other Security Agencies around the countries under the United Nations
governance for the years 2021and 2022, we discovered that you are yet to
receive your overdue funds.

I made it a top priority and my first point of call since office has been
taken to settle all Outstanding Payments accrued to Individuals or
Corporations with respect to local and overseas contract payment, debt
Rescheduling, and Outstanding Compensation payments. This is to make sure
that all Outstanding payments are been settled for the beginning of this
fiscal year 2023 On Behalf of the entire staff of the State Department and
the United Nations in collaboration with the World Bank, we apologize for
the delay in your contract payment, Winning or Inheritance funds from most
African Countries, and all the inconveniences you encountered while
pursuing this payment. However, from the records of outstanding
beneficiaries due for payment with the IFC, UN, ECOWAS & WORLD BANK, your
name was discovered as next on the list of the outstanding payment who has
not yet received their payments.

This happens to be an overdue outstanding scam victim compensation awarded
funds from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), United Nations (UN)
& Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), which was approved
and awarded on date 12/02/2020 awarded amount is the sum of $10.5 million
USD (10,500,000.00) This fund was supposed to be delivered to you through a
diplomatic agent from a Cargo logistic company but due to the laws and
orders guiding your country finical Incoming funds. The United States
Government is against a cash delivery of such an amount of funds to an
individual in the States, the assigned diplomatic agent was stopped at the
customs clearance office where he was sent back and funds were seized by
the government. But with the help of the International Finance Corporation
(IFC), United Nations (UN) & Economic Community Of West African States
(ECOWAS) managements and supports of the supreme high court, the United
States government approved the release and refund of funds to origin which
is International Finance Corporation (IFC), United Nations (UN) & Economic
Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) on the date May 20/2022.

Furthermore, The International Finance Corporation (IFC), United States
government Authorities and the United Nations advised a means that the
awarded overdue fund total amount should be reached to the recipient
through United bank for African (UBA), this was also agreed by the ECOWAS
management that a temporary account should be activated with a debit master
card with the receipt name and the total awarded amount of 10.5 million
USD (10,500,000.00) to be deposited on the debit card.
Thank you.

Assistant Managing Director of the (IFC) International Finance Corporation
Mrs Debra Nemschick.

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sensitivity of the material.


Best Regards.

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