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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. Christine Lagarde" <daniellemweiss781@gmail.com>
Reply-To: firstmeritbank230@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:40:59 -0400
Subject: THIS IS NOTIFICATION OF YOUR FUNDS PAYMENT!!!

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Attention: Beneficiary,

We the International Monetary Fund IMF, Investigation Bureau Department in
conjunction with other relevant Investigation agencies, we hereby to 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 a safe custody in the USA. First
Merit Bank, hence the mentioned Bank 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 First Merit Bank was successfully executed
today and we just received a confirmation from the First Merit Bank that
the funds valued the sum of $50 Million (Fifty Million 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 First Merit Bank USA.

Below is the information needed for your funds transfer.

1. Personal Details:

Full Name:-
Current Address:-
Age/Gender:-
Occupation:-
Direct Mobile Number:-
Country:-
Passport Copy, ID card or DL:-

2. Banking Details:

Bank Name:-
Bank Address:-
Account Name:-
Account Number:-
Routing Number:-
Swift Code:-
Company name:
Position:

Furthermore you are expecting to Identify yourself with the following code
of conduct: EGZOXHXTFRD/WBG, this code was given by the Chairman of the
First Merit Bank today for verification or easy identification so you must
endeavor to include or indicate 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
claims 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 conversations with any other individual or group except
the First Merit Bank USA. Comply with all their instruction and directives
accordingly and they will transfer your funds without any delay.

Best regards
Mrs. Christine Lagarde

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