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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.david.josephson@gmail.com Mr. David Josephson" <tomomi.k0727@jcom.zaq.ne.jp>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:29:50 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention





Attention ,
We the International Monetary Fund IMF, Investigation Bureau Department
in conjunction with other relevant Investigation agencies, we hereby
inform you that we recently received several reports through our Global
intelligence monitoring networks that you have a transaction in Africa
which wasn’t accomplished after a series of processes and requires
further procedures. Consequently we finally traced the location of the
funds and ordered the dispatch or transmitting of the funds to safe
custody in the USA. Pinal County Federal Credit Union, hence the
mentioned Banking institute will be facilitating the transferring of the
funds to your account in your country anywhere in the world as soon as
possible, this decision was made due to the rate of corruption and scam
reports perpetrated by Individuals and Government offices/companies in
Africa therefore your funds was ordered to be moved or transferred to
USA immediately for safety.
The transmission of the funds to Pinal County Federal Credit Union was
successfully executed today and we just received a confirmation from the
Pinal County Federal Credit Union that the funds valued the sum of
$10.5Million Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars was
received by the Bank management, therefore we are officially contacting
you in this regard by letting you know that your funds are presently at
Pinal County Federal Credit Union.
Therefore you are advised to contact them immediately with the
information outlined below:
Pinal County Federal Credit Union
Contact Person: Mr. David Josephson
E-mail: (mr.david.josephson@gmail.com)
Contact them with the below information for the transfer of your funds:
Your personal profile (Profession, names, age, Home address, phone
number# Your MOBILE and LANDLINE required)
Furthermore you are expected to identify yourself with the following
code of conduct: EGZOXHXTFRD/WBG, this code was given by the President
and CEO of the Pinal County Federal Credit Union today for verification
or easy identification so you must endeavor to include or indicating
this code in your email.
Finally you are advised to completely terminate all your conversation or
correspondent with any other individual, authority or office in Africa
who claim to be in the custody of your funds because your funds was
officially transferred to USA today under our instructions therefore you
should completely quit all correspondents with any other individual or
group except the Pinal County Federal Credit Union. Comply with all
their instructions and directives accordingly and they will transfer
your funds without any delay.
Yours sincerely
Mr. Ben Arnold
Managing Director
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
E-mail: (mr.david.josephson@gmail.com)


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