419 scam: "MR. BEN S. BERNANKE" <amos@wk0l7682t.homepage.t-online.de> CONTRACT FUND 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: "MR. BEN S. BERNANKE" <amos@wk0l7682t.homepage.t-online.de>
Reply-To: <bensbernanke201@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:19:11 -0700
Subject: CONTRACT FUND CREDIT

CONTRACT FUND CREDIT FROM BANK FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD NEW YORK.

We received the instructional letter to credit $10.5million to your account

We wish to let you know that all charges are waived for the sucess of this contract fund to be credited into your account.

Your respond is very urgent to enable us credit your account without any further delay and you are also required to get back to us with the reconfirmation of your banking informations for we to know if what we have in our file is correct and to avoid crediting your fund to wrong account.

However, you are required to provide the followings details below:

{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 be fast on this matter.

Regards,

Mr. Ben S. Bernanke

Chairman Federal Reserve Bank New York,

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