419 scam: "Christine Lagarde"<mgl1kal1@aol.com> Your Outstanding Payment, This woman Said You Are Dead

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Christine Lagarde" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Lagarde.Christine@imf809.onmicrosoft.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:27:35 -0700
Subject: Your Outstanding Payment, This woman Said You Are Dead

Attention: Beneficiary

This is to inform you of your long overdue Payment outstanding in our Banking records. I saw your name in our Central Computer vetting system among our unpaid inheritance claims individuals and have to update your information through this email contact for your immediate confirmation.

You are among the beneficiaries who will be receiving their over due payment of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten million, five hundred thousand United State dollars) which has been already approved some days ago after we received further approval from the appropriate authority under the U.S. Government to release the above mentioned amount to you. However, we received an email from one Mrs. Chanel S. Jones of Minden, Louisiana who told us that she is your next of kin, that you died in a fatal car accident last month.

Furthermore, She has been building efforts to induce us into believing that you are dead, that she is your next-of-kin, and she has the legal right to obtain whatever is due to you. Therefore, this is the reason we have agreed that I should contact you to enable us find out if she is right or just an impostor. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that she is right. But if you will, at least, confirm to us that she was not sent by you, then we shall release your funds to you as the sole beneficiary of the funds. She has also submitted her bank account details to us for transfer of the fund to her as your inheritor. Below is the banking details we received from Mrs. Chanel S. Jones.

Bank: Carter Federal Credit Union
Address: 918 Homer Road, Minden, Louisiana. 71055
Routing # 311175983
Account # 1019784
Acct. Holder: Chanel S. Jones

We are now verifying by contacting you before we can make the transfer into her account. Upon this, I request you to send your information such as: Full name, full address, Direct phone number and copy of your identification as soon as possible to enable us finalize the transfer of the fund to your bank account.

Once again, proper confirmation required urgently from you if you are still alive.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Christine Lagarde
Director, IMF

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