419 scam: Grant Award <bitbucket@quantich.com.br> =?UTF-8?Q?RE=3A_=C2=A319=2C620=2C000=2E00_GBP_Grant_Award

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Grant Award <bitbucket@quantich.com.br>
Reply-To: info@sormazgroup.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:07:49 -0300
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?RE=3A_=C2=A319=2C620=2C000=2E00_GBP_Grant_Award_Notifi?=
=?UTF-8?Q?cation=2E?=

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Congratulation,

RE: Â£19,620,000.00 GBP Grant Award Notification.

Are you the owner of this email address? If yes, then congratulations!

This is to notify you that you have been selected by the board of
trustees of the International Monetary Fund - IMF based in the United
Kingdom for a cash grant award of Â£19,620,000.00 GBP with reference No.
IMF/CG-18023, for your business, economic and social research
developments of your community

The International Monetary Fund - IMF grant award is conducted online
annually and geared towards global humanitarian development and poverty
eradication, participants' emails were chosen worldwide from different
categories based on their personal and business development of their
respective environments.

For further details and to collect your Â£19,620,000.00 GBP cash grant
award, kindly send your Name, Phone Number and ID copy must be valid,
Occupation, Nationality, Home Address, today by email with the above
reference number.

We would like to inform you that we shall be making a transfer to your
account once we have received your full acceptance by replying to this
mail. We shall open an online account in your name with our accredited
paying Bank and then shall provide you with e-online bank details to
enable you to make online transfers.

Yours sincerely,
Caroline Bourret
Notification Officer
For; International Monetary Fund - IMF

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