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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: "World Bank Group" <forms@lumisource.com>
Reply-To: mw1192704@aol.com
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2023 18:07:02 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION: Distinguished beneficiary,


ATTENTION: Distinguished beneficiary,

Our independent financial security monitoring agents have just confirmed you have been dealings with some unauthorized impersonated staffs of various existing and non-existing government organizations operating from different offices, we are contacting you today because we are taking over your Online Safety, We all know that the rate of fraudsters and scammers online are so much that we all receive at least 80-100 hoax messages per day, all those stories are used by fraudsters to extort money from people.

We wish to congratulate and inform you that after a detailed review and due assessment by the United Nations in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) Department, has been alleged to monitor all transactions and has constituted a 14 man investigative panel and foreign Debts reconciliation committee, which I am the Chairman of the committee saddled with the responsibility to investigate and compensation beneficiaries.

As institutions to the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has this office to liquidate all external creditors' bills in this second-quarter of fiscal year 2023 by compensating approved beneficiaries with the sum of $4.8m to each beneficiary.

Henceforth, this is your payment reference Code (UN/LO- IMF-WB PVA- ID:P0023), we advise you to stop further communications with the fraudsters either by email, fax or telephone upon the receipt of this message OR you might as well continue with them but please remember to note this phrase, you will never receive one dollar or cent outside our organization since your payment release manifest booklet is registered under our abode.

I want to show you the only way that will enable you to get your fund without any upfront charges or payments. “Waiver Option B" is the only thing that you will obtain and you will get the result which all the thousands of dollars you have spent have not given you.
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By this I mean "Waiver option B" This option allows you to apply and get all fees, charges, duties, levies and taxes that you are supposed to pay on your fund waived aside and authorize the Government Authority concerned to effect your overdue compensation total sum without any delay as approved and instructed by the International Monetary Fund and Auditor General of the World Bank Group with the United Nations.

With “Waiver Option B" you can only pay any money when you have confirmed your fund inside your bank account, Bank Draft OR ATM Card.
In this manner, you are required to re-confirm your personal details below to ensure immediate payment within 3 bank working days in line with international best practice:

* Your Full Name:
* Contact Address:
* Personal Tel or Mobile:
* A Certified Means of ID:

Please feel free to contact me for further clarifications regarding this matter.

Yours faithfully,
Axel van Trotsenburg
World Bank Group
Senior Managing Director
Washington, DC 20433 USA

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