419 scam: "Mr. William C. Dudley"<pollybfar@aol.com> RE. GUARANTEED PAYMENT.

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "foreign exchange" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. William C. Dudley" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infous@superposta.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:08:11 -0500
Subject: RE. GUARANTEED PAYMENT.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street, New York,
NY 10045-0001, USA
Date: 09/14/2012

Attn: Beneficiary

REF: SWIFT WIRE TRANSFER PROCESSING/MT 103 SINGLE CUSTOMER CREDIT TRANSFER

Dear Sir,

Without taking much of your time, I wish to introduce myself to you as name is "Mr. William C. Dudley", the President/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

This good news letter is to inform you that we have held a meeting with the U.S Department of State, delegates from the British Government, InterPol and the FBI. However, the subject of this meeting held yesterday in Washington D.C is to eradicate the act of scam, extortion and funds delay, which are presently significant with banks in Africa, London and Europe. In conclusion to this meeting, we (The Federal Reserve Bank of New York) have been appointed as the accredited financial institution that will pay all foreign beneficiaries who have transactions with Nigeria and other African countries.

However,You are quite lucky to be contacted today by this respectable bank for the release and transfer of your intercepted funds valued at US$5,500,000.00 (Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only), which some greedy officials attempted to divert into a secret account in Switzerland. Presently, your fund is under the custody of this bank and we are ready to pay you immediately because our "Financial Monitoring Unit" (F.M.U) earlier discovered that this fund was about to be lodged into a Swiss account.

However, before we can transfer your funds into your own bank account, you must stop all further contact or communication with every other person or person(s) claiming to be handling your funds because it is only this bank that has the legitimate right and mandate to pay you accordingly without delay.

For your immediate payment, you are advised to respond to this message with a reconfirmation of your receiving bank account details.

Thank you for your basic understanding. Please take note that we operate under the GLOBAL BANKING STANDARDS and we carry out foreign exchange-related activities on behalf of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury.

Officially Sealed by,
Mr. William C. Dudley
President /Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank New York

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