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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: paypal delivery <nzekopuruatmcard@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:05:17 +0100
Subject: GOOD NEWS RECEIVE YOUR FUNDS NOW

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS
Credit Risk Department
2200 N. Pearl Street, Dallas,
TX 75201, United States of America.


Notice! Notice! Notice! This is to notify you that we the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas have received a credit alert of USD$10.7M from
Africa in your favor, and we have been instructed that the money
should be release to you as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile before we will proceed on the above instruction, we hereby
advice you to contact the African Clearing House in New-York to send
to this Bank a letter of Authorization on your behalf to confirm the
legality of the fund, and as soon as we receive this letter from them,
we shall immediately go-ahead and release the above mentioned amount
to you without you paying any upfront charges.

However, here is the contact information to the Head of the African
Clearing House in New-York:
Contact Person: REV BANKOLE
Private E-mail: revbankolewilliams@gmail.com
Official E-mail: p.message@aol.fr
Direct Number: +1 805-669-6048 OR (347) 903-0623

So kindly contact them immediately and get back to us with the
authorization letter to enable us release your fund to you
immediately.

Yours in Service,
Rob Burchard
Director, Credit Risk Manager (FRB)

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