419 scam: "FUND COMMITTEE I M F"<enquiries@imf.com> International Monetary Fund

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- promimf@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FUND COMMITTEE I M F" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <promimf@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:14:19 -0700
Subject: International Monetary Fund

Good Day sir/Ma,

The International Monetary Fund IMF, Investigation Bureau Department in conjunction with other relevant Investigation agencies, hereby inform you that we recently received several reports through our Global intelligence monitoring networks that you had a transaction, which wasn't completed due to several bureaucratic bottleneck after series of process.
Consequently, we have finally traced the location of your overdue funds and ordered the dispatch or transmitting of the funds to a safe custody. Hence, the Banking institution will be facilitating the transferring of the fund to you as soon as possible.

The transmission of the funds was successfully executed and we have received a confirmation from the BANK that the funds valued $2.5M Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars, has been received by the Bank management, therefore we are officially contacting you in this regard to let you know that your funds are presently at a bank which will be disclosed to you upon receiving your response as regards to this information.

As a matter of fact, your fund has been securely entrusted to a paying bank, under a special supervision of the Federal Burue of Investigation.This decision was made due to the rate of corruption and scam reports perpetrated by Individuals and Government offices, companies in UK, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Furthermore identification cod FBIXX48USA has been issued to your Payment, which you are required to indicate by using it as the subject of your email for verification or easy identification and the following information are also required;
Your personal profile:
Your full Name :__________
Your complete address:__________
Your Country:__________
Age:__________
Profession:__________
Current Phone number #:_________
Any valid identification :_________
Amount owed to you :_________
Title of your payment:_________

Do respond back to us directly through this email address: promimf@gmail.com
Provide this information to us immediately to enable us issue a release instruction to your paying bank and forward to you the contact information of the paying bank to enable you open communication with them.

Warmest regards
Dr.Andrew Tweedie
Sub. Director IMF(Financial Affairs)
Email: promimf@gmail.com

The International Monetary Fund Health Department has advised the Government of the World to enforce its citizens to obey the isolation process to stop the spreed of the Covid !9.We hope this idea and measure will help to stop the virus from its spreed.

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