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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 of Dallas <giuseppe_farina216@alice.it>
Reply-To: dallasfed5@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:02:31 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Welcome to Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

ATTENTION DEAR BENEFICIARY,

Your payment files from three (3) different banks, Nat-West Bank of London,
Central Bank of Nigeria, Benin Republic and Federal Reserve Bank of dallas was
compiled and submitted to my desk this month for review. The total sum owed to
you by the 3 banks mentioned above was sum up to the tune of US$2,700,000.00
(Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

Now the fund has been totally lodged in one particular Escrow account here in
the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, while waiting for accreditation to your
personal bank account in any part of the world.

Meanwhile, after due scrutiny and verification, we confirmed that you have
fulfilled all the necessary obligations that will enable the release of your
payment to you, but yet your payment was not released to you due to one 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 interest.

You are however lucky that we the management of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas detected their 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 Federal Reserve Bank, thus, your funds has been made ready for transfer in
our sophisticated macro transfer system, what we need from you now is to
provide 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.

You are required to reconfirm the below listed details correctly.

Full Name:
Country:
Current Address:
Direct Mobile Number:
Passport Copy, ID card or DL:

NOTE: IF YOU PREFER TO RECEIVE YOUR FUNDS IN FORM OF AN ATM VISA CARD, WE COULD
LOAD AND SHIP YOUR ATM VISA CARD TO YOUR ADDRESS WHICH WILL PERMIT YOU A DAILY
WITHDRAWAL LIMIT OF US$7,000 OR WRITE A DRAFT CHECK AND DISPATCH TO YOUR HOME
ADDRESS.

Regards,
Mr. Robert Steven Kaplan
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Phone: +1 (518) 547-0370

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