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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 <"FRB."@abeam.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Federal Reserve Bank <www_federalreservebnk@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:43:52 +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 we encounter Rat Hackers who try to still from us.

From the records of outstanding overdue payment with federal Government of U.S.A your email was discovered as next on the list out of the 11 outstanding client 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 to have the fund transfer to her but we need proper confirmation from you before any transfer will be made to her account . Here is the bank information she provided for the transfer.

Name: Mrs. Sandra White
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 Mrs. Sandra White is from you or not so that the federal government will not beheld responsible for paying into wrong account as she said your in the hospital with some hospital report, if Mrs. Sandra White is not your representative, you're requested to fill and send this information below (for verification purpose so that your fund valued ($6,700,000.00 usd) will be remitted in to your nominated bank account without delay.

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.

Text or call customer care for more information Tele: +12026887233

As soon as this information is received today, your funds will be wired to your bank account directly from Federal Reserve Bank New York USA, the fund is ready right now and available to be transferred.
Note:We shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mrs. Sandra White if we do not hear from you within the next three working days from today.Once again, we are sorry for the inconveniences you might have encountered in the past, in pursuit of your funds. Now that this office, Fund Reconciliation Department is involved, you will have no cause to ever regret again as soon as you adhere to the above given instructions.

I anticipate your urgent response

William C. Dudley
Director Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001
Tele: +12026887233

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