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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: "Mrs.Kristalina Georgieva" <infoinfoinfo1956@gmail.com>
Reply-To: informationoffice@citromail.hu
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 20:03:35 -0700
Subject: Payment..

International Monetary Fund
IMF Headquarters (Washington, DC)
700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20431
Fax: + 1 (202) 623-4661

Dear Beneficiary,

LETTER OF COMPENSATION.

My name is Mrs Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund [IMF].

This is to officially inform you that your email is short listed by the International Monetary Fund Compensation Award Committee setup to compensate for the huge losses of the victims of the internet scam/fraud, you are also warned to disengage from future pursuit of unlearned transactions.

The International Monetary Fund [IMF] is compensating all the scammed victims $1,500,000.00 United States Dollars each. Your name and email address was mentioned to the United States Secret Service by one of the Scammers who was arrested.

Furthermore we advise you to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) concerning any transaction that you might have lost your hard earned money to avoid losing more money to other group of scammers who are on the FBI wanted list and are still on the run and for this reason we want to warn you not to communicate or duplicate this message to anyone for any reason whatsoever as the The United States Secret Service is already on the trail for the other criminals.

If you are interested in receiving your overdue payment you are hereby advised to re-confirm the below information once again for further proceedings/next line of action.

Full Name:
Home address:
Direct/personal cell number
Copy of any valid identification:
Your occupation

Respond back to me through this email: tboverseasdept@citromail.hu

Anticipating your urgent cooperation in order to receive your payment.

Mrs.Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director
IMF.

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