419 scam: "Andrew Tweedie"<dovi128@poplar.ocn.ne.jp> YOUR COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDER BY ONLINE TRANSFER/ VIA ATM CARD

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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "international court of justice" (not involved with lotteries)
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "account opening" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- ",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)
- "fund beneficiary" (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)
- "we advice you" (this email uses bad English)
- "headquater" (this email uses bad English)
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "offshore account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- internationalmonetaryfundusa1@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Andrew Tweedie" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <internationalmonetaryfundusa1@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:20:03 +0100
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDER BY ONLINE TRANSFER/ VIA ATM CARD

International Monetary Fund
IMF Headquateres
Washington, D.C.,
United States of America.
Email:internationalmonetaryfundusa1@aol.com

Dear Fund Beneficiary,

YOUR COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDER BY ONLINE TRANSFER/ VIA ATM CARD

This is to inform you that, we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the United States Government, Benin Republic Government, United Kingdom Government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) including with the help of the Currency Transactions Reports (CTR) and Suspicious Transactions Reports (STR) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Financial Action Task Force (FATF). We have been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of African countries which includes (United Kingdom, India, Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Court of Justice (ICJ) Hague (Netherlands) soon for Criminal/Fraud Justice.

During the course of our investigation, we have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. The United Nation Anti-Crime Commission and the United State Government have ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among 100 Lucky people around the World for compensation. This Email/Letter is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scammer Artists file and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with the sum of USD25,500,000.00 (Tewtry-Five Million Five Hundrad Thousand Dollars
Only).

We have also arrested some of those who claim that they are Barristers, Bank Officials, Lottery and Government Agents who has money for transfer or want you to be the next of kin of such funds which does not exist. Since your email address appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid to you through Online transfer /ATM VISA CARD. An ATM Visa Card will be issued in your name and your USD25,500,000.00 (Tewtry-Five Million Five Hundrad Thousand Dollars Only) will be loaded into it, and deliver it to your postal address with the Pin Number, as to enable you withdrawal your funds from any ATM Machine anywhere in the world. To issue the ATM Visa Card, you are therefore advised to contact the (CIBC FIRST CARIBBEAN BANK CAYMAN ISLAND)After the account opening over there in Cayman Island in the new Bank (CIBC FIRST CARIBBEAN BANK, CAYMAN ISLAND) , this is so because Visa Inc. is a global payments technology com
pany that enables consumers, busi

Contact him now he will help you lodge into your new opened account with (CIBC FIRST CARIBBEAN BANK, CAYMAN ISLAND) into your account with the same bank, this arrangements is for safekeeping of your funds because you can not bring all your funds at once to your country because of the new rules and regulations on moving huge sum of funds from one place or the other,

with this arrangements, you will be officially protected and there will be no more records of your funds to your governments, you will only make transfers from your offshore account once you need money to settle matters like payments of your mortgage, payments of your cash loan, children school fees, official business payments and lots of others payments from your side, this is all supported with the official bank to bank transfer system

1. Full name
2. Phone and fax number
3. Address were you want them to send the ATM card to
(P.O box not acceptable)
4. Your age and current occupation
5. Attach copy of your identification

Please Be Warned, as The United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the United State Government does not instruct any other Bank or agent in this payment except (Mr. John Rusher of IBC FIRST CARIBBEAN BANK, CAYMAN ISLAND), whom we can only give attention to, and from now, we advice you to stop all the communications you are having with any other Agent or bank officials in Europe, Asia and Africa regarding to your payment.

Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions.

YOURS SINCERELY,

Andrew Tweedie

Finance Department Director
International Monetary Fund
700 19th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20431

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