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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <alvaradolgas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:23:00 +0100
Subject: Re: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION!!!SHOULD WE PAY THEM ON YOUR BEHALF?m.bj

Federal Reserve Bank of New York , of
Gillian &
Adrian Bayford Charity
Donation. (File No: Citi65775/8#/Bayford
Charity013)

Mar.2nd,216
Your Ref:..............

ATTENTION:
BENEFICIARY,

Definitely, I know that this letter will be a surprising one to
you, firstly, I will like to introduce myself officially as Mr. Yulov, The
Director of Federal Reserve Bank of New York ,You are been officially contacted
today because your Inheritance/contract Funds was Re-deposited into the "Federal
Suspense Account" of Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week, because you did
not proceed with your Claim as the Rightful beneficiary which is well known to
the board and management team of Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Three men
came to my office yesterday in connection of your inheritance/contract fund and
these men were unexpected by me because their visit was out of official
appointment. I had to ask them why they came to see me in person and they said
that they were here to claim the Inheritance/contract sum of (US$22.5m) which
rightfully belongs to you as your inheritance/contract title on your behalf, at
this development I asked them who authorized them to

1. LETTER OF
ADMINISTRATION.
2. HIGH COURT INJUNCTION.
3. ORDER TO RELEASE.

Actually,
these Documents which they tendered to this Bank are Proves that you sent them
to claim this Fund for you. Finally, I gave them an appointment next week, in
order to contact you for verification and authorization before releasing this
fund to them. As the Director of The bank, I was supposed to Release this Funds
to them but I refused to do so because I wanted to hear from you first. Due to
the Nature of my job, I will not want to make any mistake in releasing this Fund
to anyone except you whom is the recognized beneficiary to this Fund.
Kindly
clarify us on this issue before we make this Payment to these foreigners who
came on your behalf. In receipt of this confidential Letter, you are required to
get back to me immediately to enable us proceed with the payment or cancel the
payment in their favor and wait for your next instruction.

Best
Regards,

YOURS SINCERELY,
Head Office
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045

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