419 scam: "Jerome H. Powell" <miss4358d@gmail.com> ATTENTION BENEFICIARY

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Jerome H. Powell" <miss4358d@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jeromehp87@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 05:27:41 -0400
Subject: ATTENTION BENEFICIARY

From the Desk Of Mr.Jerome H. 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

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, Bank of America, Wells Fargo bank , UBA BANK Cotonou Benin Repub

lic 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 $58,000,000.00 (fifty-eight Million United State 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$58,000,000.00 (fifty-eight Million United State 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
$100 being the approval payment certification from the government of
Benin,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
Benin and you are to use this information to send the $100 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 and refused to pay the fee within the
next two working days from today.Here is the information you will use to
send the payment through Ria Money Transfer or Money Garm. or buy Steam
Wallet Gift Card or Google play Card scratch it and send the photo to me
just for your own good..

Note: If you will prefer to receive your funds in form of a ATM CARD,Then
we could load your funds into ATM CARD and ship your Card to your address
which will permit you to withdrawal of US$25,000 USD three times daily.
Attached here is the scanned copy of my valid working identification for
your confidence
You alerted reply urgent Get back to us now.

Congratulations
Yours in Service,
Mr.Jerome H. Powell
Chairman Federal Reserve Board New York

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