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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: IMF CONSULTANT <soporte247@recargasenergex.com>
Reply-To: imfconsultant@yandex.com
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:16:54 -0600
Subject: Re: PEROSNAL LETTER FOR YOU



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Dear beneficiary

This is to inform you that African Union Have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI.
They have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana,Burkina faso, Liberia, Sierra Leone,South Africa and Senegal with cote Ivoire ) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice.
During the course of investigation,they were able to recovered some funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the funds recovered to be shared among the 3 Lucky people listed around the World as a compensation.
This notice is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of $750,000,00 USD.
Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD and deliver to your postal address with the Pin Numbers as to enable you withdrawal maximum of $5,000 on each withdrawal from any Bank ATM Machine of your choice, until all the funds are exhausted.
The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall be delivered to you, Note: that you will pay for the Delivery fee, we don’t know the courier cost of shipping the card to you but if you permit us and accept the terms, then we can make an inquiry from the courier shipping company to find out the cost immediate Delivery of your ATM VISA Card.
you should provide us with the following details to forestall any mistake of issuing the ATM Card.
1. Full name for confirmation2. Cell Phone3. Fax number4. Address were you want us to send the ATM card to (p.o box not acceptable)5, Your occupation
6. Your identification e,g international passport page or driving license
May God Be With you
We advice you to stop all the communications with everyone regarding your payment as we have short listed to deliver to you and now urge you to comply and receive your ATM Card funds.
Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions while we wait to hear from you, direct your reply to imfconsultant@yandex.com

Yours in ServicesMrs Janet Tommy


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