419 scam: Federal Reserve Bank <"www."@vega.ocn.ne.jp> Headquarters: New York, NY, United States of America

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "outstanding contractors" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "fund beneficiary" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "williamdudley2@outlook.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Federal Reserve Bank <"www."@vega.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Federal Reserve Bank <williamdudley2@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:36:02 +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. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank)

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.

Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman is from
you or not so that the federal government will not beheld responsible for
paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your representative, you
requested to fill and send this information$B!G(Bs for verification purpose so that
your fund valued ($5.700, 000.00 usd) will be remitted in to your nominated
bank account.

Here is the information you are required to send via email for us to check up with the data we have in our

central computer.
(1) Full Name.............
(2) Country/State/ City Name.............
(3) Delivery Address.........
(4) Occupation.............
(5) Sex..................
(6) Age.................
(7) Telephone Number...........
(8) A Cope of Your Passport/ Drivers Licenses......................

You alerted reply urgent

Sincerely.
Mr. William C. Dudley
Director Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001
Email: williamdudley2@outlook.com

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