419 scam: "Payment Processing Director"<processingdirector@payment.org> Re: Your payment notice !!

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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:

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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Payment Processing Director" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <payymentdirector@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 01:39:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Your payment notice !!

Attention Fund Owner,

Some group of corrupt official working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and major banks in the United Kingdom,Canada and Africa, conspired to serphon your due payment of $3.5M to their private account overseas.. We tracked down 5 officials that were involved in this act.

Your payment has been approved this last quarters and will be released to you through telegraphic wire transfer or through a certified ATM card. We urge you to make a choice of payment which you find most convenient and also re- confirm your complete names, address, direct telephone numbers, occupation and a valid ID in order to update your file on our payment database.

For security reasons, we urge you to stop all communication with whom ever you are dealing with at this point.

Warm regards,

Raab R. Edward

Payment Processing Director

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