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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: "Ms.Kristalina Georgieva" <mcbainmike65@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Ms.Kristalinaeorgieva111@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:54:15 -0700
Subject: INSTRUCTION / WARNING TO RELEASE YOUR UNPAID FUND (*6061*)

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
( I.M.F ) Head Office
Senior Resident Representative
#1900 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20431 USA.
(I.M.F)(6061).

FOR YOUR INFORMATION: BENEFICIARY.

STOP ANY FATHER PAYMENT BETWEEN YOU AND ANYBODY ON THE INTERNET AS A
SPORT, AS WE HAVE DISCOVERED THAT YOUR NAME IS ON THE (U.S.A) PAYMENT
BLACKLIST.

This message is from the international monetary fund (I.M.F) as a
result that the reason why we deci­ded to communicate with you today
is because we have discovered that you are pursuing too many
transactions in internet in which all are failing you after wasting
too much money IN pursuing them , some of these transactio­ns are FAKE
and Some are REAL but the reason you have not received any fund is
because your name is in US.BLACKLIST which makes it impossible for you
to send money out and also receive your inheritance funds out of the
country or within, so it is better you stop wasting your money in the
name of receiving your inheritance funds until your name is removed
from the BLACKLIST and enter into the US.WHITELIST, blacklist is a
list of people or groups regarded as unacceptable or untrustworthy and
often marked down for exclusion or blocked from receiving huge amount
of funds outside the country or within the country. So if you want to
remove your name from the blacklist and place it in the American
whitelist then contact us back or you keep having problems receiving
your funds after sending so much money to them. The requirement to
removing your naem from the Blacklist are as foll­ow

A...Your full Name..­............
B...Your home addres­s.......
C....WhatsAPP Number:
D....Your occupation­...........
E....Country.........­......... .....
F....Your international passport/or driver's license /or state I.D

Above all, you are obliged to pay insurance of removing your name from
the blacklist but, please do not cont­act us if you know that you
cannot pay this fee but, if you are willing to remove your name from
the blacklist then get back to us to direct you where to send the
money and after that, we shall transfer your total fund $5,500,000.00
into your Bank accou­nt or any means by which you want to receive your
fund to, while this de­partment of US.Black­list Removal Office is
lo­cated in United States America/ Finland and Poland, is because
U.S.A is the origin country of your organization fund sum of
$5,500,000.00 which has been assigned from the Finland Ministry of
Finance and Poland Government. The reason for this is because we have
discovered that your name has been on the payment blacklist for so
many years now which makes it impossible for you to receive any
approved compensation funds from any country. Finally, the solution is
on your doorstep now as you may decide whether to remove your name
from the payment blacklist or not, to enable us proceed with immediate
effect to release your fund.

Ms. Kristalina Georgieva
Chief Economist of the International
Monetary Fund. (I.M.F)(6061)
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund. (I.M.F)(6061)
Secretary On: internationalmonetaryfund41021@gmail.com
E-mail on: Ms.Kristalinaeorgieva111@hotmail.com

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