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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: UNITED STATES FEDERAL RESERVE <info@unitedststesfederal.com>
Reply-To: info@un-compensation.org
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 12:58:09 +0300
Subject: Congratulations!



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United State Federal Reserve
800 Water Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204
P.O. Box 929, Jacksonville, FL 32231-0044
(904) 622-1000

Attention: Beneficiary,

It has come to our notice that you have been defrauded of your hard
earned money by fraudsters from Africa and the rest of the world, During
the last United Nations General Assembly meeting, It was alarmed so much
by the rest of the world on the loss of funds by various foreigners to
scam artist operating all over the world today. After the meeting, we
have decided to redeem the good image of African Countries, Therefore,
an immediate payment of $10,500,000.00 USD (Ten Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) has been approved for each of the
affected victims.

This payments will be made by UNITED STATES FEDERAL RESERVE as the
authorized and corresponding paying institution under the funding
assistance from the World Bank. As at date some beneficiaries have been
paid most of them are from United States. Your information was mentioned
by some of the syndicate that was apprehended in Madrid Spain, and
London as one of those that have lost a lot of money to their
operations. You are hereby advised and warned not to communicate or
duplicate this message to anybody for any reason whatsoever as the U.S
secret service and the F.B.I is working day and night to track more of
this criminals down.

This has to be kept confidential until these criminals are all
apprehended. You can receive your reimbursement via any of these options
you choose (CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT OR WIRE TRANSFER). In this regards, You
are to contact the undersigned Mr Adama Dieng with your "phone number
and home address" for the immediate processing on the release of your
compensation payment to you.

Your urgent response is awaited.

Adama Dieng

Co-ordinator
www.federalreserve.gov
Email: info@un-compensation.org

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