419 scam: "FROM FEDXERAL RESERVE BANK,NY,USA."<info@frb.us.org> FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "clearance fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "tax clearance" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "hundred thousand united states 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)
- "tax clearance" (Tax offices mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. Even after you pay their fake tax demands you will still not receive the non-existent funds you have been promised. )
- "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- 2347033206328
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- smithanderson0001@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM FEDXERAL RESERVE BANK,NY,USA." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <smithanderson0001@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:27:17 -0800
Subject: FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

Federal Reserve Bank of America
33 Liberty Street,
New York, NY 10045.
Our Ref: FRB-75BFNYUS2014.
Tel: (212) 730-5000.
RTN NUMBER:0210-0120-8.

Attn: Honorable Beneficiary.

Payment Release Instruction From Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Acting on our capacity as the international correspondent bank to the International Monetary Fund Organization, this is to officially notify you that we have received a confirmation advice from the International Monetary Funds External Auditors Committee, World Bank, United Nations Organization and the Federal Reserve Bank of America respectively via International Payment Voucher Number: IMF/FRBWDC/BOA-93WB82UN567-G requesting our bank to direct the Guaranty Trust Bank Nigeria Plc, a subsidiary of the Federal Reserve Bank of America NY in Lagos,Nigeria to disburse your due wining/inheritance and contract payment valued at Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$10.5) in your favor via their branch in LAGOS,NIGERIA,NOTE that this funds payment instructions will cost you only the fees you will send to Guaranty Trust Bank through Smith Anderson for the procurement of a copy of your INTERNATIONAL FUNDS PAYMENT RELEASE TAX CLEARANCE FEES (IFPRTCF) which is the only prerequisite for your payme

In view of this directive received from the International Monetary Funds (IMF), we have on our own part verified your payment file as directed to us, and your name is next on the list of outstanding fund beneficiaries to receive their payment at this First quarter of year 2015. With that being done, you are required to urgently
contact GUARANTY TRUST BANK in Nigeria through their International Funds Release Director as below:

Contact Person: Sir.Smith Anderson.
(Head, Funds Release Supervisor)
Email:( smithanderson0001@gmail.com )
Direct Tel: 234-7033-206328.

We wish to inform you to re-confirm the following information before the Guaranty Trust Bank in Nigeria to enable the officer in-charge to proceed with the preliminary arrangements that will enhance the immediate release of your funds. Owing to security reasons and to avoid SCAM be clearly informed that we will monitor your payment from The Reserve Bank here in NY to make sure that our Affiliates bankers in Nigeria (Guaranty Trust Bank) release your funds to in in accordance with the International Standard laid down procedures and regulations,this is based on the complaints we received from some beneficiaries on the extortion's their face with Nigerian Banking system in the course of receiving there funds, you are therefore advised to communicate only with the accredited officer for further remittance advice and your payment through the legal means of payment as regulated by the IMF/WORLD BANK which are through KTT Bank Wire Transfer/ Issuance of an ATM Master Card by the paying bank and also vide the issu

1) Full Name:
2) Full Address;
3) Your contact telephone and fax number;
4) Your Age and Profession;
5) Copy of any valid form of your Identification;
6) Your Bank name;

Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.

Treat this message with utmost urgency as it requires for your payment as it has been guaranteed for immediate payment through our affiliate bankers in Nigeria (Guaranty Trust Bank) hence that is where your funds originated from prompting the payment from there.

Yours Sincerely.

Mr.William C. Dudley.
President,
Federal Reserve Bank NY.
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Unauthorized re disclosure or failure to maintain confidentiality may subject you to federal and state penalties.
If you are not the recipient, please immediately notify Federal Reserve Bank of New York by return email, and delete this message from your computer.

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