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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: "COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF SOUTH AFRICA" <u26105706@tuks.co.za>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:42:08 +0200
Subject: COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF SOUTH AFRICA



COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF SOUTH AFRICA
RE: 2005/2014 SCAM VICTIM’S COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF SOUTH AFRICA
Welcome to Western Union®
Send Money Worldwide
Tel/ +27617821330

Attention: E-mail Address Owner

RE: 2005/2014 SCAM VICTIM’S COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF South Africa

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating all the scam
victims and your email address was found in the scam

victim’s list. This Western Union® office has been mandated by the IMF
to transfer your compensation to you via Western
Union® Money Transfer.However, we have concluded to affect your own
payment through Western Union® Money Transfer, $5,000
twice daily until the total sum of $80,000.00USD is completely
transferred to you. We can not be able to send the payment
with your email address alone, thereby we need your information as to
where we will be sending the funds, such as; Receiver’s
name:…. Address:….Country:…..Phone number…..Attached copy of your
Identification…Contact our Customer Care at
(imfsacompensation@outlook.com) with your full information.

Note that your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 72
hours if we did not hear from you, this was the instruction given to
us by the IMF. We will start the transfer as soon as we received your
information. For urgent inquiry, call +27617821330
.
Thanks,
(Mr Williams Jefferson)
Director Western Union® Money Transfer,
Head Office Republic South Africa.
Tel; +27617821330
CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE

This email is intended for the owner of this E-mail Address only and
contains privileged and confidential information. If you
received this email by error, please delete it from your mail box and
notify us immediately for correction. The disclosure of
this email to a third party is highly prohibited. Thanks for your
understanding.

This message and attachments are subject to a disclaimer. Please refer
to www.it.up.ac.za/documentation/governance/disclaimer/ for full
details. / Hierdie boodskap en aanhangsels is aan 'n vrywaringsklousule
onderhewig. Volledige besonderhede is by
www.it.up.ac.za/documentation/governance/disclaimer/ beskikbaar.

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