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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: "Curtis Crux" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <curtiscrux@voila.fr>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:46:12 -0000
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION:

International Settlement Dept,
Room 7584, World Tower 9,
No. 1146-Northern Blvd Avenue
New York 11597, United State.

AN IMMEDIATE ATM DEBIT CASH CARD PAYMENT NOTIFICATION:

This is to officially inform you that we the International Monetary Fund Reconciliation Schemes have choose to verify your contract/inheritance file and found why you have been unable to receive your payment because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in respect of your contract / inheritance payment which this office had the original seal of this agreement. With the assigned Governmental Organization(s) between the involve parties.

Secondly we have been informed that you were or are still dealing with the none officials in the bank and all your attempts to secure the release of the fund to you has not been successful for this reasons. We wish to advice that, such an illegal act like this has to stop if you wish to receive your payment since we have decided to bring a solution to these problems.

We have arranged your payment through our swift card payment centers, which is the latest instruction from International Monetary Fund Reconciliation office. The card center will send to you an ATM debit card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM Machine Cash Center in any part of the world, so if you like to receive your fund in this way, please let us know by contacting our ATM Center Manager with the requested information as listed below to the follow office via email. International Monetary Fund,

International Settlement Dept,
Room 7584, World Tower 9,
No. 1146-Northern Blvd Avenue,
New York 11597, United State.
Telephone: +1-206-337-9540,
Email: <curtiscrux@voila.fr>
CONTACT PERSON: Mr. Curtis Crux,

Required information:

1. Full Name
2. Phone and Fax Number
3. Address Where You Want Them to Send the ATM Card to (P.O Box Not Acceptable)
4. Your Age and Current Occupation
5. Country:

In the mean time we have been mandated to issue out this payment via this scheme during this fiscal budget year of 2010 against the World Financial and Economic crisis. Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication with any other person (s) or office(s) to avoid hitches in receiving your payment. Note that because of scrupulous impersonators, we hereby issued to you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-3728) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject.

Now contact our ATM center Manager for more details.

We await your urgent response at your earliest convenience,

Yours in Service,

Mr. Jack Wong
International Settlement Dept;
International Monetary Fund.

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