419 scam: "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND"<info@admin.org> INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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.
- +447024012656 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
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.
- jamestalbot2@centrum.cz (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jamestalbot2@centrum.cz>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:42:17 -0700
Subject: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

International Monetary Fund
20 Fiskerton road lincoln,ln3 4la
London-United Kingdom
tel: +447024012656

Dear sir,

This is to notify you that your over due inheritance/contract funds has been gazetted to be released through the Bank of America.

Your name was listed in the central computer among the list of unpaid beneficiaries of funds emanating from contracts, lottery winnings, inheritance that originated from Africa and Europe.

Your payment has been concluded pending your confirmation of your payment option meanwhile, we want to inform you that a man came to this office a few days ago with a letter of authority, claiming to be your true representative. We therefore wish to confirm directly from you if you sent or authorize any person to act on your behalf.

Below are the information he presented for the transfer of the fund for you to confirm to this office if the man is truly from you or not so that we will not be held responsible for paying into a wrong account name:

Name: MR.BROWN JOHNSON
Bank name: CITI BANK
Bank address: ARIZONA, USA.
Account number: 6503809428.

Please, do reconfirm to this office, as a matter of urgency if this man is from you.

I sincerely apologize to you on behalf of this organization (IMF- (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) on our failure to release your fund in time, which according to records in the system had been long overdue.

Please get back to me immediately Through email ( jamestalbot2@centrum.cz ) to enable us forward your information to our paying bank in NEW YORK or UNITED KINGDOM so that your funds can be transferred to you within 48 hours.

Yours sincerely,
JAMES TALBOT
(IMF United Kingdom)
(http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/chron/mds.asp
note: your return response should be through email to keep record.

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