419 scam: Federal Reserve Bank of New York <office.unitedstates@tim.it> Re: NOTIFICATION OF CREDIT

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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:

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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Federal Reserve Bank of New York <office.unitedstates@tim.it>
Reply-To: boanewyork.bank@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:23:25 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: NOTIFICATION OF CREDIT

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty St.,New York, NY 10038.

NOTIFICATION OF CREDIT

We
have this 25th day of August 2017, received a payment credit
instruction from the United Nation and World Bank to credit your account
with your compensation funds allocated in your name to the tune of US$
5.5Million (Five million Five hundred United States Dollars Only) from
their reserve accounts with us.

However, you are required to
re-confirm the following details as specified below so as to effect the
Wire Transfer aforementioned above to your designated account details:

(1). Your Full Name and Address:

(2). Your Confidential Tel, Cell and Fax:

(3). Your Bank name and address:

(4). Your A/c Name and A/c Numbers:

(5). Your Swift Code / Routing Numbers:

Please
do provide the above information accurately as this office cannot
afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds or liability of
funds credited into a ghost account.

Thanks for banking with Bank of America while we look forward to serving you with the best of our service.

Yours in Service.

Brian Moynihan
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer,

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