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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2347031997622
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • info.imf@sapo.pt (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CBN IMF <cbcncncncb1@msn.com>
Reply-To: <info.imf@sapo.pt>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:54:39 +0000
Subject: Waiting For Your Call



FINANCE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. IMF

I FOUND YOUR NAME IN THE CENTRAL COMPUTER AMONG THE LIST OF UNPAID CONTRACTORS, INHERITANCE NEXT OF KIN AND LOTTO BENEFICIARIES THAT WAS ORIGINATED FROM AMERICAN, EUROPE, ASIA PLUS MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICANS, AMONG

THE LIST OF INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES THAT YOUR UNPAID FUND HAS BEEN LOCATED TO THE STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, HSBC, BARCLAYS BANK, NATWEST BANK, BANK OF AMERICA, ECO BANK NIGERIA PLC AND CBN PLUS ATM PAYMENT TO MENTION ONLY BUT FEW.. YOUR NAME APPEARED AMONG THE BENEFICIARIES WHO WILL RECEIVE A PART-PAYMENT OF US$5.5 MILLION AND HAS BEEN APPROVED ALREADY FOR MONTHS. YOU ARE REQUESTED TO GET BACK TO ME FOR MORE DIRECTION AND INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND.

HOWEVER, WE RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM ONE DR. ROBERT WALTER WHO TOLD US THAT HE IS YOUR NEXT OF KIN AND THAT YOU DIED IN AN AUTO CRASH SOME WEEKS AGO. DR ROBERT WALTER SUBMITTED ACCOUNT CO-ORDINATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

BANK OF LEBANON
A/C NO: 890458984589
ROUTING NO: BL 275-79665
ABA NO: BL-ANAJFG-FL
BENEFICIARY: DR ROBERT WALTER

HE HAS ALSO SUBMITTED HIS ACCOUNT FOR US TO TRANSFER THE FUND TO HIM.WE WRITE TO CONFIRM THE GENUINETY OF HIS INFORMATION BEFORE THE TRANSFER COULD BE MADE TO HIM ACCORDINGLY, I APOLOGIZE TO YOU ON BEHALF OF INTERNATIONAL

MONETARY FUND (IMF) IF WE HAVE RECEIVED A FALSE INFORMATION HTTP://WWW.IMF.ORG/EXTERNAL/NP/SEC/MEMDIR/OFFICERS.HTM FAILURE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUNDS EARLIER BEFORE NOW, WHICH ACCORDING TO RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM HAS BEEN LONG OVERDUE, CONTACT ME VIA MY EMAIL: info.imf@sapo.pt

YOURS SINCERELY,
DR MARK FRANK
CELL: +234-7031 997 622
FINANCE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. (IMF)

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