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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 Reserved Bank <mrskethwit261@gmail.com>
Reply-To: federalreserveban7@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 06:22:10 -0700
Subject: From The Desk Of Jerome Powell,USA Federal Reserve Bank Chairman

>From The Desk Of Jerome Powell,
USA Federal Reserve Bank Chairman,
Alabama Branch Office.
524 Liberty Parkway
Birmingham, Alabama USA

Your payment files from three (3) different banks, Nat-west Bank of
London, Central Bank of Nigeria and Bank of America was compiled and
submitted to my desk this morning for review. The total sum owed to
you by the 3 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 the Federal Reserve Bank on your name, while
waiting for accreditation to your personal/private bank account in any
part of the world.

Meanwhile, after due scrutiny and verification, I 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 selfish
interest.

You are however lucky that we the management of the US Federal
Reserved Bank detected their evil 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/transfer has been put
in place here in the Reserve Bank of America, thus, your funds has
been made ready for transfer in our sophisticated macro transfer
system, what we need from you now is to provide to us the bank account
of your choise which you want us to transfer your funds so we can
expedite action for the accreditation of your funds into your account
immediately.

Below are the information needed for now for your transfer.

Bank Name:
Bank Address:
Account Name
Account Number:
Routing:
And copy of your identification:
Your full delivery address:
Cell/Phone Number:

Note: If you wish 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$6000 or write a draft or check and
send it to your provided address. In anticipating for your urgent
cooperation.

You can text SMS this number (816 659-0847) for any oral assistance,
my PA Mr. Oscar Bill will attend to you.

In anticipating for your urgent cooperation

Yours sincerely,
Mr.Jerome Powell
The Current Chairman
Federal Reserved Bank

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