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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" <cs11@hdsac.net>
Reply-To: GMjanet001@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:49:04 -0600
Subject: Federal Reserve System




Headquarters of
Federal Reserve System
Eccles Building,Washington, D.C.,
United States of America.

Attention,

It has been brought to our notice that your fund has been finally cleared
and transferred to your bank account and we must first and fore most
commend the Bank of America for their selfless and patriotic service
rendering to you and most importantly their efficient and effective
service delivery to all their customers and beneficiaries of the said fund
that has been given mandate to transfer to each of the beneficiaries all
around the world by the U.S Government and all other authorities that were
involved in this transaction.

However, Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the
United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of
the Federal Reserve Act, the bank system maintain close relationships with
other federal departments on a formal and informal basis; however, the
leadership of the Federal Reserve is generally free to develop and execute
monetary policy as it sees fit.The Federal Reserve System has both
regulatory (rule making) and supervisory (monitoring and enforcing)
responsibilities of all the banking system in United States of America.
The Fed's supervisory functions also involve directly monitoring and
inspecting member institutions to ensure they are observing legal and
sound practices.

Finally, with this great responsibilities that has been saddled to this
bank, we therefore demand for the following documents to be submitted to
this bank for thorough verification and scrutiny before your fund will be
finally released to your account. these documents are as follows.

1) The Deposit Certificate of your transferred fund from Bank of America.
2) The fund Approval Certificate from U.S Government.
3) The Statement of Account of your fund from Bank of America.
4) The Transfer Slip of the fund from Bank of America.
5) The World Bank Group Certificate in conjunction with other relevant
Authorities.
6) Your identification.

Note that without the presentation of these certificates, your fund will
not be release to you.

You are advised to get back to us today with the necessary documents with
immediate effect for thorough scrutiny and verification and after which
your fund will be release immediately.

Below is the attached copy of my official identifications for more proof.

This inconveniences is highly regrettable therefore we sincerely
apologized for that effect. You must forward all documents and reply back
to this email address {GMjanet001@gmail.com} for more information. This
email is specially meant for our beneficiaries whom intend to receive
their funds instantly.

Regards,

Dr.Janet L. Yellen

The Chair of the
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
(Central bank of
United States of America).

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