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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: "Mr. William C.Dudley" <fileoffice364@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mr. William C.Dudley" <frn.bnak@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 08:27:19 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Federal Reserve Bank of New York


Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Headquarters: New York, United States of America
Founded: 1914, New York City
Address: 33 Liberty St, New York NY 10045-0001

From the desk of Mr. William C. Dudley, the  10th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Attention: Dear,

We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we might put you through, while we were having some minor issue with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments, beside from the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with federal Government of U.S.A, your name was located as the next on the listed out of the 6 outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments during the 3 years tenure of the previous administration in office.

Meanwhile, it is unofficial of you sending Mrs.Annette stillman, to came and claim your fund value of $7.4 Million USD, on your behalf, this woman came to this office today with a letter claiming to be your true representative according to her, and she confirmed to us that she is willing to pay the required transfer charge the sum of $189.00 USD, to have the fund transfer to her bank account she has furnished us with.

BELOW IS THE BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS SHE PROVIDED US FOR THE TRANSFER.

Name: Mrs.Annette stillman
Bank name: Citibank , Arizona , USA .
Account Number: 6503809008
Routing number: 322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 1723 Palmdale Bulv
Palmdale ca..93550

Kindly notify us immediately if this woman was sent by you or not, because this management can not afford to held liable of transferring fund in to a  criminal account, If you are not responsible of sending this woman kindly reconfirm us with the below listed information's to enable us proceed with the transfer with out any further delay.

1) Your Full Name:
2) City:
3) Home address:
4) Telephone number:/Fax:
5) Your Bank account information's:
6) Bank address:
7) Occupation:
8) Age:
9) Company name: If any
10) Attach copy of your ID/ Driver license:

Upon the receipt of your mail with the required information's we shall notify you with the next line of our action.

We anticipate your urgent response to this message.

Sincerely.

Mr. William C. Dudley
Director Federal Reserve Bank.

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