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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: International Monetary Fund <tonyallensowusu32017@gmail.com>
Reply-To: imfheadquarters8@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:09:29 -0800
Subject: From The International Monetary Fund.(IMF)

*International Monetary Fund,IMF Headquarters 1,700 19th Street,
N.W.,Washington, D.C. 20431 USA.Telephone: + 1 (202) 623-7000Fax: + 1 (202)
623-4661.Re-Your $17.5 Million US Dollar Payment.Attn: ** Beneficiary *






















*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 your(Whatsapp
number) 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
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imf.org%2Fen%2FAbout%2Fsenior-officials%2Fmanaging-directors&sa sntzusg
vVaw2CA-BP_YZiaI8lzfbpgWDI>CONFIDENTIALITY
NOTICE:The content of this email is confidential and intended for the
recipient specified in the message only. It is strictly forbidden to share
any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of
the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this
message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake
does not occur in the future.*

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