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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 <deki72@sabotronic.co.rs> (may be fake)
Reply-To: info.frbut2@yandex.com
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:46:38 +0200
Subject: Re: Classified Information to Beneficiary


FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of NEW YORK.
33 Liberty St, New York, NY 10045, United States.
27/09/2015

Attn: Dear Fund Beneficiary,
We have this day 9th September 2015 received a payment credit instruction
from The President Barack Obama USA to credit your account with your full
Inheritance fund Acting on the capacity from U.S National Credit Union
Administration (NCUA) this is to officially notify you that we have
received a confirmation advice from the Federal Reserve Bank External
Auditors Committee, respectively via Fund & Bond Payment Release
Instructions with CIS code number: NCUA/FRB0015OCC-FDIC-DOTXXT, requesting
payment instruction verification order to you as the beneficiary To direct
credit from U.S National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) to assign and
accredit any subsidiary bank world wild to oversee your transfer of
payment asset bond valued at (USD $20.500,000.00 million) Twenty Million
five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. You are required to get back
with a brief introduction about yourself for further remittance advice
which includes your

1. Your Full name……….. Residential
……………………………………. & Office address
2. Your contact telephone……… mobile……… & fax
number………….
3. Your Age ………. Profession…….. & Working
Experience……………
4. Copy of any valid form of your Identification
5. Your Bank name
6. Account name and Number
7. ABA/Routing Number
8. Your Bank Address
9. Swift or Sort Code/IBAN

Please do provide the above information accurately, because this office
cannot afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds or
liability of funds credited into unknown account. Thanks for banking with
FRBNY while we looking forward to serving you with the best of our service.

Treat As Urgent.
Yours in Service
Dr. Janet Yellen
Verification Board Chairman Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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