I've never laughed so hard at a scam. $1,000,000 PERSONAL refund from the IMF!

[saras]

International Monetary Fund Compensation Unit,
In Affiliation With World Bank.
Address Fund, 1900 Pennsylvania
Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20431

Our Ref: IMF/USA/00111

RE: COMPENSATION OF US$1,000.000.00

Attention Beneficiary,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and the family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the past 3 months which ended yesterday with the Director and Secretary to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the IMF have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$1,000.000.00 each and you have to indicate how much you lost in the hand of scammers.

This includes every foreign contractor; Inheritance, Dating and Lottery payments that have not received their Lottery/Inheritance payment, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international Lottery payment that failed due to Government problems etc. We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed.

You are advised to contact Mr. W****** P****** at our corporate headquarters in the United States of America who will handle your compensation, contact him immediately for your compensation of US$1,000.000.00. He will be sending your $1,000.000.00 for your compensation payment from the IMF Office.

Therefore you are advice to send him below for claim.

1. FULL NAME:
2. PRESENT ADDRESS:
3. TELEPHONE NUMBER:

Contact Person:
Mr. W****** P******
Email: *****@she.com <--Chinese ISP
Tel: +1**********

[leftofcool]

1. They didn't ask for your bank account #. Somebody's slipping

[sharp_stick]

2. Oh no that comes later

after you reply and let the guy know how excited you are to be receiving the windfall. Don't forget to compliment him on his fantastic use of English.

If I have time I'll sometimes string these idiots along for awhile using a junk email account, it can be fun.

[saras]

6. 419eater.com I got tired of it, but this one is just a hoot. I guess they know I'm a leftist.

My favorite ever was the one where they got the Nigerian scammers to act out, and to film themselves acting out, Monty Python's dead parrot sketch.

[dogknob]

7. There's a group that does the stringing along, scam-o-rama

One of my favorites from them:

http://www.scamorama.com/stassen_kuba.html

[RebelOne]

10. This is my favorite

http://www.419eater.com/index.php

[Politicalboi]

3. Wow!

You better hurry and give them all the info they need, so you can get your $1,000,000 refund. Only a fool would pass this chance up. LOL! Hey if you're looking for a new place to rent, I will send you pictures, and 2 new keys to the door of your future dream house all for only $800.00. Includes move in costs too. LOL!

[hifiguy]

4. I got one last fall that purported

to be from one of Moammar Qaddafi Duck's daughters. I think I even posted a copy on DU before deleting it.

[RebelOne]

5. Did this originate in Nigeria?

But you never know, it could be for real.

[saras]

8. second to last line - the source is obfuscated through hotmail, the reply-to is a chinese ISP

[Nye Bevan]

9. Looks legit.

Because official communications from supranational financial institutions always begin "hope all is well with you and the family".

[saras]

11. The REAL scam I fell for - oops...

The email address they sent the scam letter to is now connected to this screen name.