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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 <dempseysre@outlook.com>
Reply-To: Federal Reserve Bank <www_federalreservebnk@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 13:40:38 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Headquarters: New York, NY, United States of America




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 payment and all the inconveniences we might put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments, we apologies once again.
From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with federal Government of U.S.A your name was discovered as next on the list out of the 11 outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments during the 3 years tenure of the previous administration in office please bear with us for making this initial contact through email. Meanwhile, a man came to this bank a few days ago with a letter claiming to be your true representative and is willing to pay $388 usd the wire/transfer charge  to have the fund delivered to him. Here is his information $B!G (Bs below.
Name: Mr. Robert Robinson
Bank name: Citibank,Arizona,USA .
Account Number:6503809008
Routing number:322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 1723 Palmdale Bulv
Palmdale ca..93550
Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this man is from you or not so that the federal reserve bank  will not be held responsible for paying into wrong account, if this man is not your representative, you requested to fill and send this information $B!G (Bs for verification purpose so that your fund valued ($7.500 000.00 usd) will be remitted in to your nominated bank account.
Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following
1. Bank Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Bank name:
6. Company name:
7. Position:
8. Address:
9. Working Id/ int $B!G (Bl Passport
10. Age:
11. Your telephone number
As soon as this information is received, your funds will be wired to your bank account directly from Federal Reserve Bank New York USA . Your Activation Pin is 6161 This should not be displayed for security reasons. Treat this Pin like your ATM Pin. Copy and Hide.

Note if you fail to comply to this bank within 24 hours your name and account will be deleted from the list thank you.
For more information call or leave your text massage  +1716-992-7356
You alerted reply urgent
GOD BLESS AMERICA

Sincerely.
Mr. William C. Dudley
Director Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001

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