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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: "Mr.Andrew Tweedie" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <imfdept.dept@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:01:53 -0500
Subject: OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE

OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
DIRECTOR FOR AMERICA AND EUROPE.
DEPT: WORLD DEBT RECONCILIATION AGENCIES


ESTEEMED BENEFICIARY:
Payment Code: KH5789646K



We received a New Payment Order dated 20th of March , 2020 to transfer the sum of $9,000,000.00 MILLION to you. We have already sent you two various notification mails as regarding to this New Development and it's surprising we haven't received any acknowledgement mail from you up till this time.


It was during the course of our General Auditing and Account revision for the first quarter of the year 2019, we discovered that Bank Accounts belonging to some Beneficiaries have been changed on the basis that the owners have died some time last year or have given out an authorization note of change of data and other people are trying to lay claims with false identifications with real information’s.


After our investigations it was revealed that there are foreigners who are collaborating with retired staffs to make these changes illegally without the knowledge of the Bonafide Beneficiaries and one traced to your own change is this Mr.James Bryner who stated that you are dead, hence he has forwarded some vital documents of funeral service held for you so as to divert your fund worth $9,000,000,00 million and he is working with some staffs of IMF, you are advised not to release any
info to anyone if you get this warning message.


I am sending you this mail again as a REMINDER and to have your consent as regarding to the Authorization Letter we received from Mr.James Bryner he was also in the Company of two of his other counsels who undoubtedly are his American asscociates who claimed to be your representatives. I am requesting you to personally consent to this claim by Mr.James Bryner who equally submitted a Bank Account with the City Bank as your legally acceptable receiving Bank details for the Fund transfer. Please confirm the stated Account details below as we noticed that the Account name is not your name:

Bank Name :City Bank
Account Holders Name :Mrs.Judith Bryner
Account# / 6503809428.
Routing/122006743,
Address 1076 Peter Johnson Road
New York, USA,

It is part of our strict working ethics in conformity with the International Funds Transfer Policy that you provide us your direct email, telephone contact, Full Names and Address as the genuine beneficiary to this fund before we can finally release the fund,therefore I am officially contacting you directly on this Authorization Letter and a new Bank Account details submitted by Mr.James Bryner for the remittance of your $9,000,000,00 million.


Thank you for your attention and I look forward to your swift response.

Regards,

Yours sincerely in service,

Mr.Andrew Tweedie
Remittance Director.
International Remittance Dept.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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