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An Email with the Subject "From Mrs.Christine Lagarde,International Monetary Fund." was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Wed, 02 Dec 2015 05:41:44 -0800 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as Mrs.Christine Lagarde.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
-- Hello Inheritor, We would like to bring to the notice of the general public that several variants of financial scam letters purporting to be sanctioned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or authored by high ranking IMF officials are currently in circulation, and may appear on official letterhead containing the IMF logo. The scam letters instruct potential victims to contact the IMF for issuance of a âCertificate of International Capital Transferâ or other forms of approval, to enable them receives large sums of monies as beneficiaries. The contact e-mail information is always BOGUS and unsuspecting individuals are then requested to send their personal banking details which the scammers utilize for their fraudulent activities. Contrary to what is stated in these scam e-mails, letters, or phone conversations, the IMF does NOT authorize, verify, monitor, or assist in contract or inheritance payments between third parties and/or Governments, nor does it endorse the activities of any bank, financial institution, or other public or private agency. For purposes of clarification, the IMF is an inter-governmental organization whose transactions and operations are carried out directly with its member countries. If you have already received such e-mails, you are advised to terminate all further contacts with the scammers, and in the event that you have sent them funds, you can contact Mr. Frank Ruben to assist you and have all complain forwarded to the EFCC in Nigeria. We apologize for all loss and with the help of the Nigeria government, we where able to recover so much money from scammers, that is why we want to compensate you with the sum of $6.000.000 dollars, from the Nigeria government, to receive this payment, you are advised to contact out IMF officer Mr Frank Ruben. To assist you with the receive of your compensation payment, Note: To receive your compensation payment,you would have to get an online baking account setting up to your name In Africa which would cost you a fee of $200, to enable the transfer of your funds by the next 12 hours to your personal account at your country, to proceed, kindly contact our trustful agent with your information below,if you are not in any way related to this payment do not reply. 1. Full Name .................................. 2. Sex ................................ 3. Residential Address ............................. 4. Fax/ Phone Number ............................ 5. Country ...................... 6. ScanCopy of your Identity card ................. 7. your Income..................... kindly reconfirm the above information it's for the benefit of your transaction. Contact Name: Barrister Frank Ruben Email:compensationoffice@yeah.net Best Regards. International Monetary Fund. Christine Lagarde.