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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: "International Monetary Fund" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infocimb@webmail.md>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:31:39 +0300
Subject: ***International Monetary Fund (I.M.F) ****United Kingdom

Prof. Justice Andrew.
Secretary To The Director.
International Monetary Fund.
United Kingdom.



Attn; Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that we have finally received an approval Letter from our branch Head office in Asia with an instruction to go ahead and release your fund to you immediately through the service of the Cimb Bank, Malaysia as it's been discovered that you have met all the laid down standard as demanded by the stipulated rules of the government.

So we hereby inform you that this instruction was made by the World Bank in collaboration with the United Nations that every deceased outstanding payment that was held by the United Nations Force Agency together with all unclaimed fund that was discovered in the custody of Citibank, HSBC Bank, Chase Bank, Halifax Bank, Barclays Bank, Bank of England, to be processed and release by the CIMB Bank Of Malaysia.

Therefore, you are advice to contact the referenced Bank (CIMB Bank Of Malaysia) with a full reconfirmation of your personal information as to enable them establish an online Bank account on your behalf. Such information are stated below:

(i). Full Name: .....
(ii). Address: ......
(iii). Telephone: .....
(iv). Amount Expected: ..
(v). Occupation: ..

Note that you are only receiving part payment from your total fund as of this present time because most of this Banks are on debts from the World Bank because of the rate of fraud and scam exercise discovered in these Banks, so that is why the authority couldn't meet up to pay all the fund to you. So be it known to you that your expected Amount right now is $1,000,000.00 USD only.

Please endeavor to make sure that you contact the CIMB Bank Of Malaysia with the below contact information using a subject word (My Payment Approval Reference Number is (IMF/UN/009/2011).

Bank contact Information: .

Bank Name: CIMB Bank Of Malaysia
E-mail: infocimb@webmail.md


Regards,
Prof Justice Andrew
International Monetary Fund (I.M.F)

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