419 scam: IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR <imfd020199@gmail.com> YOUR FUNDS RECOVERING

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR <imfd020199@gmail.com>
Reply-To: imfds2019@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:03:53 +0100
Subject: YOUR FUNDS RECOVERING

--
International Monetary Fund,
IMF Headquarters 1,
700 19th Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20431 USA.

Re-Your $17.5 Million US Dollar Payment.

Attn:Mr. .

Sir.,

IMF headquarters want to advise you that,based on our current meeting
with the USA president Mr. Joe Biden last week,this office was
instructed by the USA Presidency and the world bank to recover all
funds being owed to a lot of people from different countries of the
world which you are one of them for payment or redirection of those
funds to their respective owners or beneficiaries into their
respective countries bank accounts.

After the meeting,it took this office a few days to compile and
retrieve those funds from different banks and finance companies in the
world and made the funds available for payment to their respective
beneficiaries as we have in our voucher here,which you are among.

Please if you receive and read this message,what you have to do is to
respond to it immediately with your means of identification and your
cell phone number,preferably to enable us to proceed with your
funds,seventeen million,five hundred thousand US Dollars($17.5M).

When we get your response,we will forward to you more details of your
funds($17.5M) payment.Also be properly advised that with your early
response to this message within 24 hours from the time it was sent to
you,our office will be mandated for at least a maximum of (5)Five
working days payment of your funds amounted to seventeen million five
hundred thousand US Dollars($17.5M)to you.

We are expecting your early response to enable us to meet up with the
five working days mandate of your funds($17.5M) payment as scheduled.

Sincerely Yours for IMF.

Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva ,
IMF Managing Director(MD)

https://www.imf.org/en/About/senior-officials/managing-directors

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