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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: "Mrs Janet Louise Yellen" <Janetyellen@post.com>
Reply-To: frb.federalreservebank@fedrsbs.com
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 05:29:22 -0300
Subject: Federal Reserve Bank



Federal Reserve Bank
Constitution Ave NW & 20th
Street Northwest,
Washington, DC 20551, USA


Your payment files from three (3) different banks, NatWest Bank of
London, Central Bank of Nigeria and Bank of America was

Compiled and submitted to my desk this morning for review. The total
sum owed to you by the 3 banks mentioned above was sum

Up to the tune of US$30,500,000.00 (Thirty Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars).

Now the fund has been totally lodged in one particular Escrow account
(nondeductible) here in the Federal Reserve Bank on

Your name, while waiting for accreditation to your personal bank
account in any part of the world.

Meanwhile, after due scrutiny and verification, I confirmed that you
have to fulfill all the necessary obligations that will

Enable the release of your payment to you, once you fulfill all the
necessary obligations your payment will be released to you

So there will not be any flimsy excuses or the other from the Bank
officials in charge of your payment, because they had the

Intention of diverting your funds to their private accounts in order
to satisfy their selfish interest.

You are however lucky that we the management of the US Federal Reserve
Bank detected their evil plans and therefore call for

The submission of your payment file to us so we can personally handle
the payment assignment to ensure that you receive your

Funds accordingly.

Now, all modalities regarding your fund release has been put in place
here in the Reserve Bank of America, thus, your funds

Has been made ready for transfer in our sophisticated macro transfer
system, what we need from you now is to provide to us

The bank account of your choice which you want us to transfer your
funds so we can expedite action for the accreditation of

Your funds into your account immediately.

Below are the information needed for now for your transfer.

First Name:
Last Name:
Residential Address:
Passport/Id copy:
City:
State:
Country:
Phone Number:

2. Banking Details:
Bank Name:
Bank Address:
Account Name
Account Number:
Routing Number:
Swift Code:

Note: If you prefer to receive your funds in form of a Visa Card, we
could load and ship your Visa Card to your address which

Will permit you a daily withdrawal limit of US$5,000 or write a draft
check which can be deposited in any bank and send to

You and online banking transfer.

In anticipating for your urgent cooperation

Yours sincerely,
Phone No +1(202) 858-8656
Janet Louise Yellen
Incumbent Chairperson

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