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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: "Ben S. Bernanke (Federal Reserve System USA)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <joselopez_boa@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:22:25 +0100
Subject: OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF YOUR UNCLAIMED FUNDS

Federal Reserve System USA
20th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20551.
Docket No. R-1300
www.bankofamerica.com

OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF YOUR UNCLAIMED FUNDS:

ATTN: BENEFICIARY,

We are humbly using this medium to inform you that we have received a letter from the African Union (AU) & United Nations (UN) to notify you that your part payment fund valued at $15.5M ($15.5M United States Dollars) the Financial Security Services recovered from a Bank in Africa as unclaimed "Payment Fund" belonging to you have been approved and ready to be released to you unconditionally with Release Code BOE1700.
Your $15.5M has been sent to BANK OF AMERICA, office in USA and we have mandated them to release the fund to you as soon as possible.

Therefore, you are kindly advice to contact the Manager and Paymaster of BANK OF AMERICA in USA in the person of Josephine Lopez through his open email address: joselopez_boa@outlook.com and send her your payment release code which will empower her to release your $15.5M United States Dollars to you as soon as possible.
For your information, your payment file has been sent to the Bank of America for onward transfer to your bank account so kindly contact the bank account officer in-charge with her below information;

Bank Name:- Bank of America
A/C Officer:- Josephine Lopez
Email:- joselopez_boa@outlook.com
Website:- www.bankofamerica.com

You are to contact her with your name, address and telephone number and she shall respond to you with the payment details on how to send $440 which shall be use for the procurement of your Approval Slip for the release of your fund.

Thanks for adhering to this instructions.

Yours truly,

Ben S. Bernanke
Chairman
Federal Reserve System USA

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