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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: Abebe Aemro Selassie <emmac5633@gmail.com>
Reply-To: abebeemro23@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 02:27:53 -0700
Subject: Dear

Hereby inform you that the office of internal audit and investigations
has conducted an audit recently in accordance with International
Standards on Auditing. And during our recent audit we discovered
unclaimed funds which have been approved in your favor but still
unpaid. We were meant to understand from our findings that you have
been going through hard times by paying a lot of charges to some
unscrupulous elements which are using this project as an avenue to
scam innocent people off their hard earned money.

Your payment is being unnecessarily delayed by Pioneers. We certainly
do apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused. Based on
the record in our computer database, after we have verified your
payment file your outstanding payment including accrued interest
payable, is ($1,200.000) (one million two hundred thousand dollars
only.)

It gives me an immense pleasure to inform you that consequent upon
ceaseless and sincere efforts of our visionary, Chief Economist of
IMF, Ms Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova, the current Managing
Director (MD) and Chairwoman of the IMF has approved your payment and
it is ready for disbursement.
To ensure your claim goes out smoothly, please write down your real
and correct name and shipping address, including the postal code and
your phone number carefully and completely.

Contact this office immediately (abebeemro23@gmail.com)
Respectful submitted.

Abebe Aemro Selassie
Director, African Department, IMF

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