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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" <od.frbank@gmail.com>
Reply-To: federalbank898@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 22:35:55 +0900 (JST)
Subject: US Federal Reserve Bank,Corporate Office

US Federal Reserve Bank,Corporate Office
From the Desk Of DR. JEROME HAYDEN POWELL
Federal Reserve Bank / 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

Attention Dear Sole Beneficiary.

This is two times we have sent you this email notification regarding the
final release order of your approval payment files from (4) different
banks, Your payment files from (4) different banks, Nat West Bank of
London, BANK OF AMERICA, UBA BANK Kenya republic and Federal Reserve Bank
was compiled
and submitted to my desk this month for review. The total sum owed to you
by the 4 banks mentioned above was sum up to the tune of US$15,500,000.00
(Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

Now the fund has been totally lodged in one particular Escrow account (non
deductible) here in FEDERAL RESERVE BANK New York City on your name, while
waiting for accreditation to your personal bank account in any part of the
world for the quickly transfer.

Meanwhile, after due scrutiny and verification, I confirmed that you have
fulfilled all the necessary obligations that will enable the release of
your payment US$15,500,000.00 (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars). 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.

Secondly, the only money you pay for the transfer to take place is just
$200 being the approval payment certification from the government of
Republic 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 $200 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 two working days from
today.

Even if you don’t have the $200 try to borrow it and send it immediately to
day or tomorrow because this is your life opportunity and I don’t want you
to lose the chance any more.

Here is the information you will use to send the payment through Western
union or Money Gram and please don't forget to attach us the payment slip
as soon as you have pay for the processing fee or if you're unable to send
the fee to Africa please you can go to walmart store and buy Steam Wallet
card $100, $100 dollar each two and scratch it and send it to us.

Receiver’s Name: CHIDOZIE ODIFE
Country: Republic of Nigeria
City: Lagos
Amount: $200 USD

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

Note: If you prefer to receive your funds in form of a Visa Card, we could
load and ship your Visa Card to your address which will permit you a daily
withdrawal limit of US$3000 USD or write a draft check which can be
deposited in any bank and send to you.

Attached here is the scanned copy of my valid working identification for
your confidence.

You alerted reply urgent Get back to us as soon as possible Congratulations.

Yours in Service,

Dr. Jerome Hayden Powell
Director Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York, NY 10045-0001
Email Bank: federalbank898@gmail.com
Phone: +1 (505) 705-8620
Chairman Federal Reserve Board New York


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