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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" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <u.s.federalresrvebank@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:49:38 +1100
Subject: Your Funds Payment Update.

Headquarters: New York, NY, United States of America
Founded: 1914, New York City, New York, United States
ADDRESS: 33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001
 
 
 
>From the desk of Daniel K. Tarullo
 
 
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 and she is
willing to pay the wire/transfer charge of $420.00Usd to have the fund
delivered to her. Here is her information’s below.
 
 
Name: Mrs.Annette stillman
Bank name: Citibank , Arizona , USA .
Account Number: 6503809008
Routing number: 322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 1723 Palmdale Bulv
Palmdale 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
verification purpose so that your fund valued ($4.700, 000.00 usd)
will be remitted into your nominated bank account.
 
 
 
Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following
 
 
1. Bank Name:
2. Bank Address:
3. Bank Swift Code:
4. Account Number:
5. Beneficiary Name:
6. Bank Phone Number:
7. Full Names:
8. Company name:
9. Position:
10. Residential Address:
11. Country of Residence:
12. Working Id/ int’l Passport
13. Age:
14. Current Phone 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.
Daniel K. Tarullo
Director Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001

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