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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" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <richardglister000@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 01:17:25 +0200
Subject: FINAL RELEASE OF FUNDS BY RESERVE BANK..........................................

Government Gazette
Vol. 789 New York March 2011 No. 89423
No. 3578 February 2011


The management of Federal Reserve Bank Act United States of America is greatly saddened due to the fact that subsequent transfer of your fund was based on irregularities and some unfortunate circumstances surrounding such funds. The fund in question is currently in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank New York at the moment. We have been mandated by the United States Department of Finance,world bank, United Nations, IMF and the Diplomatic Fund Transfer Commission and have been give the authority to stop the procession of the fund. Hence this has lead to urgent meeting of the Board of Directors to ensure that you are exonerated from further troubles.

Further to the recommendation of the Peer review Commission, of the FinCEN (Financial Crime Enforcement Network) based in New York and the FATF Financial Action Task force resolution on foreign payment. We have taken this initiative to inform you of the current status of your fund, as the initial bank FRB (RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK) has been revoked of the right to affect the transfer of the funds due to some discrepancies and irregularities that occurred in the process of transfer. The Federal Reserve Bank New York has been accorded the prime responsibility to carry out this transfer, due to their recent success on transfer of overdue funds to distressed beneficiaries.The following recommendation is to be adopted. Firstly, the money will be transferred via online banking system rather than a block sum as it was initially transferred.

Furthermore, all vital documents relating to the transfer must be re-validated to ensure a smooth transfer of the fund. All avenues of negotiation with the parties concerned must be fully exploited so as to avoid breakdown in communication. It was also agreed that the Prime bank to effect this transfer will be Federal Reserve Bank New York, this of course as mentioned above, is due to recent and significant track record of success of funds transfer to beneficiary, by Federal Reserve Bank New York, which has proved very effective up till this moment.

You are to contact the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK NEW YORK, USA with the below email address for final discussion on how your fund will be released.You are to contact Evangelist Richard GLister and he will on recomendation give you the contact email and phone number of the Reserve bank,but procedures must be followed first by contact Richard before you can be able to view your funds online.

CONTACT FEDERAL RESERVE MEDIA CO-ORDINATOR:
Evangelist Richard Glister
richardglister000@gmail.com


Finally, the re validation commences immediately and new areas for amendment will be made as well. You will be forwarded with the new modalities and the transfer guide and all other related documents upon receipt of your response to this mail.You will have access to view your funds on the online banking of the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK,NEW YORK.Contact me first and i will refer you to the reserve bank site: richardglister000@gmail.com

Yours truly,

Evangelist Richard GLister
Media Co-coordinator
Federal Reserve Bank (FRB)
reply to: richardglister000@gmail.com

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