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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: "Mr. Mark Tomillson" <zx2@ugsdrewg.pk.tn>
Reply-To: <federalreservebank120@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 04:31:06 -0700
Subject: IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND US$10.5MILLION ONLY VIA ONLINE BANKING.

Federal Reserve Bank New York
Ref.: Final Payment Release Update.
Amount Valued: US$10.5M


Attention,Certified Beneficially

It has come to our notice by our monitoring network engineers that you have been dealing with some impostors/fraudsters that promised of releasing your funds to you, and you have made several attempts and payments to them in the pursuit of receiving your funds through them, but all to no avail.

I therefore write to inform you that those offices promising to release
these funds to you were just fraudsters, they have nothing to offer you,
but rather to extort your little hard earned money to satisfy their
selfish interest.

Your funds are still floating in our online banking database here in
the World Bank Affiliate office in usa, so you cannot receive the
funds through any other bank nor offices whatsoever apart from us.

we have indeed decided to complete the transfer of your fund through the benefits of using our Online Banking Transferring System, thus, that is the most reliable and convenient method of transferring huge sums of such magnitude to an individuals bank account, since we have confirmed that it would raise an eyebrow or even result to seizure by the Canadian and usa Goverment. if such huge amount gets transferred to your personal account via direct wire transfer.

The Online banking transfer system is the most
reliable means of transferring such funds, hence it will grant you the
opportunity to personally withdraw or transfer your fund any where in
the world.

In view of this development, we want to inform you
that your total funds with it's accumulated interest valued
$10.5m has been credited into your Online Account,so with out further delay you should forward your information's such as

Your full name:
Your home address:
Your Telephone number:
Your International Passport:
Drivers' License:
as soon as we received your information we are going to proceed for the transfer.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Mark Tomillson,
Director Remittance Department, US Federal Reserve Bank.

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