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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: Federal Reserve Bank New York <frbnyk2@live.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:04:24 +0800 (CST)
Subject: =?gbk?B?RnJvbSB0aGUgZGVzayBvZiBNci4gV2lsbGlhbSBDLiBEdWRsZXk=?=


Federal Reserve Bank,33 Liberty St New York, NY 10045-000
From the desk of Mr. William C.
Dudley
We
apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we
might put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our
payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary
payments, we apologies once again. From
the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with federal
Government of U.S.A your name was discovered as next on the list out of
the 11 outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments
during the 3 years tenure of the previous administration in office please bear with us for making this initial contact through email. Meanwhile,
a woman came to this bank a few days ago with a letter claiming to be
your true representative. Here is her information¡¯s below. Name: Mrs.Annette stillmanBank name: Citibank , Arizona , USA .Account Number: 6503809008Routing number: 322271627Swift code#:WMSBUS66Address: 1723 Palmdale BulvPalmdale ca..93550 Please
do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman is from
you or not so that the federal government will not beheld responsible
for paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your representative,
you requested to fill and send this information¡¯s for verifications
purpose so that your fund valued ($4.700, 000.00 usd) will be remitted
in to your nominated bank account. Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following 1. Bank Name:2. Bank account number:3. Route number:4. Swift code:5. Bank name:6. Company name:7. Position:8.Address:9. Working Id/ int¡¯l Passport10. Age:11. Your telephone number As
soon as this information is received, your funds will be wired to your
bank account directly from Federal Reserve Bank New York USA . We shall
proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mrs. Annette Stillman
if we do not hear from you within the next three working days from
today. We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of
your fund must have caused you. You alerted reply urgent Sincerely.Mr. William C. DudleyDirector Federal Reserve Bank33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001

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