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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: "Ms.Kristalina" <samuelzhang252@gmail.com>
Reply-To: imfofficeinfo010@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:10:08 -0700
Subject: Attention:dear Beneficiary

( I.M.F ) Head Office
Senior Resident Representative
#1900 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20431 USA.
(I.M.F)(*1970*).


Attention:dear Beneficiary

INSTRUCTION / WARNING TO RELEASE YOUR UNPAID FUND (*1970*)

This is to inform you of a very important information which will be of
a great help to 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 funds remain unpaid to you. I am Ms.
Kristalina Georgieva, a highly placed official of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF). It may interest you to know that reports have
reached our office by so many correspondences on the uneasy way in
which people like you are treated by Various Banks and Courier
Companies/ Diplomat across Europe to Africa and Asia /London We have
decided to put a stop to that.

All Governmental and Non-Governmental prostates, NGOs, Finance
Companies, Banks, Security Companies and Courier companies which have
been in contact with you of late have been instructed to back off from
your transaction and you have been advised NOT to respond to them
anymore since the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is now directly in
charge of your payment.

Your name appeared in our payment schedule list of beneficiaries that
will receive their funds in this final quarter payment of the year,
because we only transfer funds twice in a year according to our
banking regulation. We apologize for the delay of your payment and
please stop communicating with any office now and pay attention to our
office payment accordingly.

Now your new Payment,
United Nation Approval No; UN5685P,
White House Approved No: WH44CV,
Reference No.-35460021,
Allocation No: 674632
Password No: 339331,
Pin Code No: 55674 and your
Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103,
Released Code No: 0763;
Immediate (IMF) Telex confirmation No: -1114433;
Secret Code No: XXTN013.

Your payment inheritance fund is USD$10.7Million. Having received
these vital payment numbers, therefore you are qualified now to
receive and confirm your payment with the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) immediately. We assure you that your payment will get to you as
long as you follow my directives and instructions. We have decided to
give you a CODE, THE CODE IS: (*1970*) Please, any time you receive an
email with the name Ms. Georgieva, check if there is CODE ( *1970*) if
the code is not written, please delete the message from your box! You
are hereby advised NOT to remit further payment to any institutions
with respect to your transaction as your fund will be transferred to
you directly from our source. I hope this is clear. Any action
contrary to this instruction is at your own risk. Respond to
this e-mail with immediate effect and we shall give you further
details on how your fund will be released.

This Office hereby gives you the GUARANTEE your absolute protection
and that of your approved Compensation Funds via ATM CARD delivery is
100% assured. Your approved amount of US$10,700,000.00. (Ten
Million,Seven Hundred United States Dollars) by the IMF must reach you
in any of the above options best for your reception and please do not
respond to any email except this so you will be able to receive your
funds from the right source which is this office that you have already
contacted.

You have to send the sum of $100 dollars Apple iTunes gift card to
activate your ATM card, this payment will be credited to your ATM card
before we can fully remit the amount value of USD$10.7Million. United
States
Dollars

This is why it is important that we first of all receive the ATM card
Activation fee in our database, which in turn would record and file
the payment of $100 dollars Steam gift card and forward the
information to our head quarters here in USA. Then the funds would be
received, in turn registered into the system and once it is sighted,
then an instruction would be issued out to that effect and the
documentation would be formally presented to Federal Reserve Bank just
as described in my most recent correspondence with you explaining.

Please, if you can not afford to pay this US$100 Apple iTunes card
don’t reply to my e-mail; we don’t have time to beg you to activate
your ATM card under our supervision. once you buy the $100 usd dollars
Apple iTunes card make sure you send the Copy of the $100 usd dollars
here in Our Mail Address Okay,

Ms.Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund. (I.M.F)(*1970*)

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