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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 of New York <judelaslaka2015@gmail.com>
Reply-To: federalreserve.bankofnewyorw@aol.com
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:32:32 +0100
Subject: Payment Release Notification From The Federal Reserve Bank.

Payment Release Notification From The Federal Reserve Bank.

DEAR CUSTOMER

This is to officially inform you that we have been instructed to
release your over due contract Inheritance/ lottery Payment of $10.5
million to you without any further, and we will have no other option
than to believe that you are dead as claimed by one Mrs. Margaret
Thomason if you fail to respond back to our email this time.

As a matter of fact, we lost your Full Personal/ banking details after
our annual system upgrade which made it impossible for us to contact
you, and we were only able to find your email address after several
search’s on our documents.

Few weeks ago, a woman named Mrs. Margaret Thomason sent a letter to
our bank here in the United States claiming that you are dead and she
further stated that before you died, you informed her about your
contract Inheritance/ lottery payment worth $10.5 million which is
presently under our custody.

Note that Mrs. Margaret Thomason also sent a copy of your death
certificate to us in other to make her claim authentic, but we did not
believe her because you had never mentioned her as your next of kin to
us.

In fact, she has given us every reason to believe that you are dead as
she claims, and she is ready to take care of what ever it will cost
her to get your funds transferred into her personal account, but I
have been instructed by the management of this bank to contact you
this last time in order to be sure that you are dead as she
claimed,before releasing the payment to her.

So are you dead or are you still alive? If yes, you have been advised
to urgently reconfirm your full personal/ banking details as requested
below to us immediately, in order for us to cancel every further
arrangement in regards to the release of your fund to Mrs. Margaret
Thomason.


However, We Shall Proceed To Issue All Payments Details To The Said
Mrs. Margaret Thomason If We Do Not Hear From You Within 48 banking
hours.

Your Urgent attention is needed if you are still alive.

Yours Faithfully,


For And On Behalf Of
Federal Reserve Bank

Mr.Walker Smith
President and CEO Bank of America
Federal Reserve Bank. Registered in United States. Registered No.: 1026167.
Federal Reserve Bank is authorized and regulated by the Financial
Services Authority

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