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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 NEW YORK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <federalreservebank474@ymail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:17:04 -0300
Subject: RE: FINAL NOTICE ON THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUNDS IN YOUR FAVOR

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
,
Intl. Banking Centre
33 Liberty street, New York
NY 10015
To:Sir
   
This message is intended for the named recipient only and may contain privileged and confidential information.  If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately. Please do not disclose the contents to anyone or copy it to outside parties.  Thank you.
 
RE: FINAL  NOTICE ON THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUNDS IN YOUR FAVOR
We write you regarding the difficulty you have been having in receiving your long over due payment, based on the reports by the FBI, The Government has issued an express order that all beneficiaries such as you be paid immediately, the government will buy back the debt  owed to you and recover the funds itself because it will be impossible for you as an individual to receive the payment, Following the directives of the government regarding your over delayed payment, we wish to let you know that we have been having a series of meetings with the Department of Homeland Security,Washington, USA, the United Nations and the World Bank regarding the immediate release your funds to your designated bank account.
We wish to explain further that we were authorized to release the funds to your account immediately to avoid all you have been going through in the past, we have verified and approved the funds for immediate remittance to your account, to this end we advise that you send the following information to me via email so we can commence with the transfer immediately.
 
Your full name:                             
Your Telephone Number:                  
Your Home Address.                       
Your complete banking details  
Your Occupation                            
The expected amount
 
Once we receive the information we will verify them and then get back to you with the final transfer process.
Your urgent response to this message is expected, you are advised to STOP all communications with anyone else regarding this payment, if the government discovers that you are still making contacts with other people we will be forced to cancel this payment permanently and I assure you it will never be paid again.
Your urgent response shall expedite the remittance of your funds within the next 24 hours.
Kindly contact us via this email add ( info@federalreservebank.tk ) 
 
Regards,
MS. CHRISTINE CUMMING
Vice President

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