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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: Kristalina Georgieva <favoruche00@gmail.com>
Reply-To: imf.imfworldk01@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 02:24:16 -0700
Subject: Re: Your Overdue Payment Information

IMF -- International Monetary Fund:
700 19th St NW, Washington, DC 20431, USA
Email:imf.imfworldk01@gmail.com

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 $7.4M seven
Million Four 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
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:
imf.imfworldk01@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
Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director IMF
Email:imf.imfworldk01@gmail.com

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