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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 OF NEW YORK <agency@armadaship.net>
Reply-To: <alvaradolgas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:12:13 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOUR $22.5M IS NOW IN USA

Head Office
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045



WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE YOUR FUNDS HERE IN THE USA

Your payment files from three (3) different banks, Nat-west Bank of
London, JSCB CITI Bank of UKRAINE and Bank of America was compiled and
submitted to my desk this morning for review.

The total sum owed to you by the banks mentioned above was sum up to
the tune of US$22,500,000.00 [Twenty Two Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars]

Now the fund has been lodged in one particular account here in the
Federal Reserve Bank on your name, while waiting for accreditation to
your personal/private bank account in any part of the world.

Meanwhile, after due scrutiny and verification, I confirmed that you
have fulfilled all the necessary obligations that will enable the
release of your payment to you, but yet your payment was not released
to
you due to one flimsy excuses or the other from the Bank officials in
charge of your payment, because they had the intention of diverting
your
funds to their private accounts in order to satisfy their selfish
interest.

You are however lucky that we the management of the US Federal Reserved
Bank detected their evil plans and therefore call for the submission of
your payment file to us so we can personally handle the payment
assignment to ensure that you receive your funds accordingly.

Now all modalities regarding your fund release/transfer has been put in
place here in the Reserve Bank, thus, your funds has been made ready
for
transfer in our sophisticated macro transfer system, so the only
obligation you are to fulfill now in order to receive your
US$22,500,000.00 payment is the Electronic Wire Charge of $450 which
you
are to send to the remittance department.

Once you make the payment we can expedite action for the accreditation
of your
funds into your account immediately.
You are to provide us with your direct contact information as well.


In anticipating for your urgent cooperation




SINCERELY.





Janet L. Yellen
Chairman Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve Bank

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