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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. Robert Steven Kaplan" <<test@avadafans.com>
Reply-To: fedralreservebanknewyork009@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 12:45:19 +0200
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Spam?=
Federal Reserve System2200 N Pearl St, Dallas, TX 75201, USA

  
Dear Beneficiary,

This is notification message is from the Federal Reserve Dallas District,Your name is enlisted among the beneficiary whose fund is approved for payment, by the Board the Governors Federal Reserve Bank , and we have been waiting for you to contact us for you to claim your  funds of $5.5 Million dollar, but to our surprise one Mrs. Brenda Miller came forward for the fund, that, you asked her to claim the fund on your behalf with documentary evidence which we are not sure of
it source.This was why we decided to contact you to confirm to us if you really sent Mrs Brenda Miller. She said, you instruct her that the fund should be transfer to her.

 I will advise that you change your email password,because your email is be use to write to us,but because of the name on the account, we have to confirm.

Most importantly, confirm to us urgently if you gave permission to Mrs  Brenda Miller to claim the fund on your behalf and if case you did not  authorize anybody, then, You will have to stop communicating with the impersonators and the organizations, because they are trying to divert

your fund to themselves. She tries, so hard to change the fund ownership to her name. We await your prompt response,


Yours in Service

Robert Steven Kaplan

Federal Reserve System2200 N Pearl St, Dallas, TX 75201, USA

CONTACT ME HERE : fedralreservebanknewyork009@gmail.com

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