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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 <intmonfunds01@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: int.mfds03@yahoo.se
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:36:49 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: INTERNATIONAL MONITORY FUND (IMF)AFRICAN REGION . TRANSACTION CODE 601






INTERNATIONAL MONITORY FUND (IMF)AFRICAN REGION

FUND TRANSFER/VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT

REF-WBAR/SWISS/AD/VOL.3/2011





                              
                                                   FROM THE DESK OF MR.DONALD DUMONT

                  HEAD OF
OPERATION
                                                             
                                   INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

                                           Direct Lines
+234-80 75 117
545
                                                   
Official Email: imfundunitt@financier.com

ATTENTION:



                              
                                     14/10/2011 INTERNATIONAL MONITORY FUND

 
           
On behalf of the International Monetary Funds Unit
Federal Republic of
Nigeria,
we wish to inform you that petition of clients has been acknowledged today
stating that they do not know why these funds are being approved, so we want to
let you know that this is because of the economic break down has disturbed the
good people of United States so the government has decided to compensate you for
that.

This funds are given to citizens based on merit, because we do not
want to release the funds to people who will not make good use of it, by
investing them into good business that will be profitable to the government of
the state, during the economic breakdown some people did not get their pay
checks accordingly and we are giving out these to bolster the economy of the
state so we just found out that you are lucky person to receive the funds so
accept them in good faith and make good use of them when they are sent to
you.

Note: that it does not necessarily mean that you will have to give
us your banking information's, just note that we have three modes by which we
can send the funds to you:


1) BANK TO BANK
TRANSFER,

2) CASHIERS
CHEQUE

3) ATM MASTER DEBIT
CARD



Specified mode
above can be programmed with your name and address and then be delivered to you
via our affiliate courier delivery agents.

So we have reached a
conclusion that we are going to send the funds to you via a CASHIERS CHECKS or
ATM MASTER DEBIT CARD and they will be
brought to your house directly via our courier agents who shall be in charge of
the delivery of the envelops to you, and we shall also secure some legal
documents with your name at the banks so all this will require that you send us
some of your information's, so please we shall need your name and some other
information's that will enable us sign and the cashiers checks on your name, so
please send information's as requested therein below.

(1) Full
Name..............
(2) Mailing Address............
(3) Valid Tel-mobile/
Home /fax...
(4) Occupation, age and marital status
(5) International
passport or Driven license.
(6) Company name (if any) position and
address


We will advise that you give us a call upon the
acknowledgments of this email for further inquiries as Your transfer release
code for this transaction is:(601)


Await your response
to this missive Emailing Asap today so as to give you further
counsel.

 
MR DONALD DUMONT
Head of Foreign Operation

International Monetary Fund (IMF) African Region
Direct Line Direct
Lines +234-80 75 117 545



Your transfer release code for this transaction
is:(601)


GOOD DAY

 
YOUR'S SINCERELY

MR DONALD
DUMONT(IMF






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