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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: "PETER SIMON[FRB]" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <petrsimonconsulacc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:14:25 -0000
Subject: IN YOUR BEST INTEREST]s]

Dear Beneficiary,





I hope that this correspondence is

received with the urgency and expediency required.





It has come to the notice of the Board

of Trustees of the Federal Reserve Bank here in Washington,

D.C. that your present inheritance claims application being

handled by the Remitting Bank in Malaysia is experiencing

some man made irregularities. To this effect, it has become

necessary for the Board of Trustees to assign trained Fund

Transfer Specialists from the United States to resolve and

regularize your fund release with immediate effect.





We at Peter Simons & Consults have

been duly consulted by the FRB Board of Trustees. We have

been fully informed about how the staffs of the remitting

bank has been taking advantage of you by telling you to pay

unnecessarily exorbitant charges which will only make your

fund payment a long drawn out process.





Due to this development, we have been

assigned to step into the immediate processing of your fund

transfer to enable your funds to be transferred to you

within the shortest possible time. To implement this, you

are to get back to us immediately without needing to pay all

the huge sums of monies that are being demanded from you by

the previous handlers at the remitting bank.





All processes to have your funds paid

to you immediately through the BNM's Liaison Remittance

Office in New York have been initiated to cut out

unnecessary costs.





You are advised to treat this

communication with the urgency and seriousness required as

the Board of Trustees of the Federal Reserve Bank has

mandated us to resolve this fund payment within the next

three working days independent of the office of the

Remitting Bank in Asia.





Furthermore,you are hereby advised to

pay no further fees or charges to the Remitting Bank in

Malaysia as they shall no longer be handling your payment

process.





We shall await your immediate

correspondence with your direct telephone numbers to my

private email address at (petrsimonconsulacc@gmail.com)

for

re-confirmation so that we may conclude

your payment immediately.





Yours Sincerely,

Peter Simons.

Peter Simons & Consults.

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