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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: WELCOME TO FEDERAL RESERVE BANK DEAR SOLE BENEFICIARY <mrjamie.dimon200@gmail.com>
Reply-To: officedept192056@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 11:53:58 +0100
Subject: WELCOME TO FEDERAL RESERVE BANK DEAR SOLE BENEFICIARY

From the Desk Of Mr. William C. Dudley
Federal Reserve Bank
Today at 10:39 AM
Headquarter: 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
E-mail address: officedept192056@yahoo.com

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 woman came to this bank a few days
ago with a letter claiming to be your true representative and is
willing to pay US$290.00 the wire/transfer charge to have the fund
delivered 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

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’s for
verification purpose so that your fund valued ($4,700,000.00 usd)
FOUR MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR
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’l Passport
10. Age:
11. Your telephone number

Secondly,the only money you pay for the transfer to take place is just
US$290.00 being the approval payment certification from the government
of Nigeria,and you are giving a limited time to send the payment and
please be advise that you are to send the payment to American Embassy
office in Nigeria and you are to use this information to send the
US$290.00 and please be informed that you are not going to pay any
other payment to any body and do not be deceived by any body to send
any other payment.

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

Here is the information you will use to send the payment through Money
Gram or Western union.

Receiver Name:AKACHI SHIRLEY
Address:Nigeria
Question: GOOD
Answer: SISTER
Amount: US$290.00

Send to me the following info once you send the payment.
Senders Name:
Location:
MTCN / Reference #:

You alerted reply urgent

Sincerely.
Mr. William C. Dudley
Director Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001
E-mail address: officedept192056@yahoo.com

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