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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.William C.Dudley <info@lee.com>
Reply-To: <frbnk.financialservices@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 02:00:07 -0800
Subject: FEDERAL RESERVE BANK, NY

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 Mr William C.Dudley

We apologies for the delay of your compensation payment and all the inconveniences we might have put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with beneficiary payments, we apologies once again.

From the records of outstanding beneficiaries due for payment with the Government of the United States, your information was discovered as next on the list out of the 11 beneficiary who have not yet received their payments during the 4 years tenure of the previous administration in office, please bear with us for making this initial contact through email. Meanwhile, a power of attorney was forwarded to this bank a few days ago by a woman Mrs. Annette Stillman claiming to be your true representative and she stated that you are dead, she brought an account to replace your information in other to claim the said fund in tune of $4,700,000,00 usd, she is willing to pay to activate a transfer, the wire/transfer charge of $490 to have the fund delivered/transferred 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

The power of attorney also stated that you suffered and died of throat cancer. Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman is from you or not so that we will not be held responsible for any wrong payment, if this woman is not your representative, you are requested to fill and send your information for verification purpose to Mr Martin Kelly, director financial services so that your fund valued ($4.700,000.00 usd) will be remitted/transferred into your nominated bank account.

You are hereby required to contact the director immediately with the details below:

Name: Martin Kelly
Email: frbnk.financialservices@outlook.com

Kindly reconfirm to him the following information:

1. Bank Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Company name:
6. Position:
7. Address:
8. Working Id/ int’l Passport
19. Age:
10. Current/Valid Residential Adress:
11.Your telephone number:

As soon as this information is received and verified, your funds will be wired to your bank account directly from Federal Reserve Bank NY, 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 (3) working days from today. We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have caused you.

Your alerted reply urgent

Sincerely.

Mr. William C. Dudley
Director, Federal Reserve Bank
Global Financial System for International Settlements (BIS)
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001.

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