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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 World" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <angelabate@mynet.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 08:46:00 -1200
Subject: (IMF) ATM SETTLEMENT

Regional Office for Central Europe and Baltics International Monetary Fund Inline with 37C Zielna,
00-108 Warszawa International Settlement Dept.
 
International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Bank Group Ltd Switzerland Immediate ATM DEBIT Cash Card Payment Notification, CRT-II Home This is the official information letter for the Claims Resolution Tribunal against Unclaimed funds within the past years and other banks Entities.
The Claims Resolution Tribunal is responsible for processing claims relating to assets deposited in safety company world bank regulations on international money transfer obstructions by Country government and banking policy prior to and during business transfers :
This is to officially inform you that we the International Monetary Fund World Bank Group Ltd Switzerland Reconciliation Schemes have choose to verified your contract/inheritance file for payment and why you have not been unable to receive your payment because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in respect of your contract / inheritance payment which this office had the original seal of this agreement with the assigned governmental organization between the involved parties.
 
Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the officials in the different offices and all your attempts to secure the release of the fund to you have not been successful for this reasons We wish to advice you that such an illegal act like this have to stop and if you wish to receive your payment .since we have decided to bring a solution to your problem.
We have arranged your payment through our swift card payment centers, which is the latest instruction from International Monetary Fund Reconciliation office. The card center will send to you an Credit/ debit master card with banking details of containing your name as the righful owner. which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world your account details can be accessed online, so if you like to receive your fund in this way, please let us know by contacting our
Fastservice Microfinance Ltd a subsideary of International Monetary Fund World Bank Group Ltd Center Manager with the requested information as listed below to the following  office via email. claims correspondent office for more directions.
Kindly provide us/ them with your full informations below.
Beneficiary Details:
1. Your Full Name: ......................
2. Your Residential Address:.............................
3. Your Telephone Numbers:.................................
4. Your Occupation:........................
5. Your Country :......................
6. Sex:...............................
7. Age:...........................
8 Amount:.............................
Were You Want Them to Send the ATM Card to (P.O Box Not Acceptable)
Fastservice Microfinance Ltd
 
a subsideary of International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group Ltd,
Eng Mr. Fernandez Ella
E-Mail: ella_fernandez1152@yahoo.com  
      
       
 
In the mean time we have been mandated to issue out this payment via this scheme due this fiscal budget year 2014 against the World Financial and Economic crisis. Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication with any other person (s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-3914) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject. Now contact our claims correspondent office for more directions. We Wait For Your Expedite Response.
Yours in Service, BOARD OF TRUSTEES IMF International Settlement Dept.

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