419 scam: "Mr. Jones Robinson"<info@live.com> International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC 20220 USA Your funds is Recoverd

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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 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.
- imfoffice9090@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Jones Robinson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <imfoffice9090@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:34:28 -0700
Subject: International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC 20220 USA Your funds is Recoverd

International Monetary Fund
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20220 USA
Phone Number: +1-646-694-0102

I am Mr. Jones Robinson Director in charge of the compensation funds to scam victims from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It may interest you to know that reports have reached our office by so many correspondence on the uneasy way which people like you are treated by Various Banks and Courier Companies across Europe to Africa and Asia and we have decided to put a stop to that and that is why the IMF was appointed to monitor your transaction here in Africa and Europe from the (IMF) that your compensation funds worth the amount of $8.500.000.00 USD gets to you.

In view of the determination and commitment of this New Government to ensure that every outstanding foreign beneficiaries debts are settled, but to our greatest dismay, despite all the effort made last year to ensure that most foreign beneficiaries receive their payment, record still show that a lot of foreign beneficiaries did not receive their payment due to their inability to settle some outstanding up-front obligation needed by the Monetary Body

You have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money to them in the course of getting one fund or the other that is not real, right now the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is Monitoring all foreign funds.

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of The International Monetary Fund (IMF) investigations it was agreed that you will be compensated. by the International Monetary Funds (IMF) which has set aside as a compensation to everyone who have by one way or the other sent money to fraudsters in Nigeria. And those not in Nigeria would be paid by the UNITED NATIONS in the United Kingdom

Contact: Mr.Harrison Morris, with the below email address, and ask him to direct you on how to get your funds. He as been placed incharge of your funds contact him for cliam. And also fill in those your details below on your email back to him, for identification that you have been directed to get intouch with him, he will put you through to the bank and how you wish to get your funds, In your favour.

Email: imfoffice9090@gmail.com

NAME:..............
ADDRESS:...........
OCCUPATION:........
TELEPHONE NUMBER:..

Inform them about this notification letter and the transfer of your fund, and if you were not scammed from Nigeria your request would be transferred to the paying Organization.

Yours sincerely,
Jones Robinson
Director In Charge,
International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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