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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: "R.A.D" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rev.dakora@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:28:13 -0700
Subject: Your dream has come true!!!

From Desk of Rev Alex H. Dakora
World Bank/IMF Independent Evaluation Office
Department: External Audit/Debt Settlement.
Our Ref: WKIMF-25PEG

Dear Honorable Beneficiary,

My name is Reverend Alex Dakora; i am a top American Diplomat working under the World Bank Group/IMF Independent Evaluation Office here in West Africa. How are you today? I hope you are good?

I am writing to inform you about the re-approval of part of your outstanding payment of $7.5M USD which was suspended sometime ago due to your dealings with unauthorized staffs of various existing and non-exiting government organizations operating from different offices.

You and I know that the rate of fraudulent and scam activities online these days are so much that we all receive at least 80-100 hoax messages per day. All those stories are lies used by fraudsters to extort money from their victims.

Sometime ago, our Independent Security network discovered your dealings with some fraudsters from a West African country who operates as Financial agents of a well known financial institution. This led to suspension of your payment. These crooks have caused so much damages to you to extent of intercepting your email box. You know how dangerous this is. They wrote to us through your email address asking us to release your fund to them. They pretended to be you while requesting for release of your fund to them. We were lucky to find out that they are not who they claimed they are otherwise your fund would have been diverted long ago. For your safety, i will advise you to create new email address where we can have safe and sound communication with you and you have to do so with immediate effect otherwise these people will destroy you.

I wish to congratulate and inform you that after a detailed review and due assessment by the IMF and World Bank global financial stability board, the Debt Management has ask this office to liquidate all external creditors bills in this 1st quarter of fiscal year 2017. Henceforth, this is your payment reference number (WBIMF BVT ID:644771). We advise you to stop further communications either by email, fax or telephone upon the receipt of this message and receive your payment through our safe means.

It will be imperative if you listen to the voice of wisdom and stop chasing shadows. Please ask yourself why after all the fees paid to those crooks nothing was given back to you or have you taught why each time you send money they will come up demanding for another fee which will continue until you are bankrupt.

Answer all the above questions and get back to this office as soon as possible, we are trying to save you from further extortion in the hands of those impersonators.

You will not be disappointed if actually you will believe us; this is different from your previous dealings. I know you must have been humiliated in the past, but
kindly find a place in your heart to forget all the intimidation and trauma you suffered in the hands of those crooks.

We have discovered there illicit oppression through our secret imposed agents, you will never receive one dollar cent outside the World Bank because we have signed agreement with the Federal Bureau of investigation, United Nations and the entire American government to handle this payment ourselves.
For official clarity and final reconciliation, I would like you to re-confirm to us the following;

Your Full Name:
Your Full Address:
Direct office Phone or Mobile,
Profession, Age and Marital .

Upon satisfactory receipt of the above mentioned, you will be further acquainted with the detailed payment proceedings on how best to confirm your fund within the next 48 hours. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Mr. Rev Alex H. Dakora
Exec. Payment Director/Special Envoy.

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