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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: Zayas Yovani <zayasyovani1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: zayasyovani8@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:52:16 +0000
Subject: TOP SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL

Compensation as a Scammed Victim.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)In Conjunction with World bank
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 all scammed victims all over the
world. The World Bank has already given approval for the payment of
your own approved compensation fund of US$2,000.000.00 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 compensation fund is currently authorized to be paid ,
approved by the World Bank/IMF
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 will 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,

Mr. Zayas Yovani.

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