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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: opdmgi@vajira.ac.th
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:19:42 +0700
Subject: International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
In Affiliation With World Bank.
Address Fund, 1900 Pennsylvania
Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20431
Our Ref: IMF/USA/00111

Attention Beneficiary,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and the family? You may
not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a
meeting for the past 3 months which ended yesterday with the Director
and secretary to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This email is
to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the
International Monetary Fund has agreed to compensate them with the sum
of US$1,500,000.00 each and you have to indicate how much you lost in
the hand of fr.

These include every foreign contractors,Lotto, Inheritance, Dating and
Lottery payment. Also people having their fund been held up in the
World Wide Organization laboratory due to one reason or the other and
people that have had an unfinished transaction due to Government
policies etc. We found your name in our list and that is why we are
contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed.

You are advised to contact Mr. Daniel Udo who is in charge of your
payment through our paying center as he is our representative
currently based in Africa. Therefore you are advice to send to him the
following for claim.

1. FULL NAME:.
2. PRESENT ADDRESS:.
3. TELEPHONE NUMBER:.
4. AGE:

Person to Contact: Mr. Daniel Udo.
Email: danieludo7@live.com

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Regards,
Christine Lagarde
IMF Managing Director.

NOTE: YOU ARE TO FORWARD ALL REPLIES AND DETAILS TO MR. DANIEL UDO WHO
IS THE PROCESSING OFFICER TO ALL SCAM VICTIMS TO HIS PERSONAL EMAIL
ADDRESS WHICH IS (danieludo7@live.com) TELL HIM THAT I CHRISTINE
LAGARDE SAID HE SHOULD GIVE YOU YOUR ATM CARD OR HE SHOULD DEPOSIT
YOUR $6.5 MILLION DOLLARS IN YOUR ACCOUNT.

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