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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: "Dr Janet L Yellen" <drjanetyellenl@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drjanetlyellen@citromail.hu
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 23:41:11 -0000
Subject: Federal Reserve Bank Arizona Branch Office




Federal Reserve Bank
Arizona Branch Office
AZ 85043, United States


Your payment files from these three different banks, Nat-west Bank of
London, United Bank For Africa and Bank of America was compiled and
submitted to my desk today for review. The total sum owed to you by these
3 banks mentioned above was summed up to the tune of US$15,500,000.00
[Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars]. Now the
fund has been totally lodged in one particular Escrow account
(NON-DEDUCTIBLE) here in the US Federal Reserve Bank, while waiting for
accreditation to your 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 excuse 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 that we can personally handle the payment
assignment to ensure that you receive your funds accordingly.

Now, all modalities regarding your fund release/transfer have been put in
place here in the Reserve Bank of United States of America, thus, your
funds has been made ready for transfer in our sophisticated macro transfer
system, what we need from you now is to provide to us the bank account of
your choice where you want us to transfer your funds to, so that we can
expedite action for the accreditation of your funds into your account
immediately.

Note: If you also wish to receive your funds in form of a Visa Card, we
could load your total funds into a VIP Visa Card and ship it to your
address which will permit you a daily withdrawal limit of USD $20,000. We
can also write a draft or check and send it to your home address.

Below are the information needed for now with regards to either transfer
or delivery.

Full Name:
Home Address:
Phone numbers:
Bank Name:
Bank Address:
Account Name:
Account Number:
Routing Number:
Swift Code:
A copy of your identification:

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. Janet L. Yellen
The Current Chairman
Federal Reserve Bank

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