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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: Federal Reserve Bank <"www."@leaf.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Federal Reserve Bank <federalreservebank075@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 04:08:48 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From the desk of Mr William C.Dudley

Headquarters: New York, NY, United States of America
Founded: 1914, New York City, New York, United States
ADDRESS: 33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001

From the desk of Mr William C.Dudley

Attention Dear, Greetings From Federal Reserve Bank New York and United States
Integration, am hereby to inform you that an alert come to us today from United
Nation Official through the help of Federal Bureau of Investigation {FBI}. And
according to the reporter, World bank organization together with United State
Embassy Benin Republic, have approved to compensate You as a scam victim with
the Sum of $25.5miilon, and your email address was found among the 10 lucky
beneficiaries,meanwhile the fund will be release this week as soon as the
beneficiary meetup/comply with the instruction/requirements.

We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we might
put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our payment
system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments, we
apologies once again.

From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with federal
Government of U.S.A your name was discovered as next on the list out of the 10
outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments during the 3
years tenure of the previous administration in office please bear with us for
making this initial contact through email. Meanwhile, a woman came to this bank
a few days ago with a letter claiming to be your true representative and is
willing to pay For the wire/transfer charge of $109 to have the fund delivered
to her. Here is her information’s below.

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

Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman is from
you or not so that the federal government will not beheld responsible for
paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your representative, you
requested to fill and send this information’s for verification purpose so that
your fund valued ($25.5millon) will be remitted in to your nominated bank
account.

Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following

1. Bank Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Bank name:
6. Company name:
7. Position:
8. Address:
9. Working Id/ int’l Passport
10. Age:
11. Your telephone number

Secondly,the law stated that every beneficiaries will take care of the expense
base on your favorable means of receiving the only money you have to pay for
the transfer to take place is just $109 being the approval payment
certification from the American Embassy office in Benin Republic,and you are
giving a limited time to send the payment.

As soon as the Payment information is received, your funds will be wired to
your bank account directly from Federal Reserve Bank New York USA,We shall
proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mrs. Annette Stillman if we
do not hear from you within the next three working days from today. We are
sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have
caused you.

You alerted reply urgent

Sincerely.
Mr. William C. Dudley
Director Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001

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