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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: "Mr. Jerome H. Powell" <ibdcustomercaredivisions@gmail.com>
Reply-To: federalreserve.bank2018@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:25:20 +0100
Subject: Your Federal Reserve Bank Online Account Is now Ready

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Address: 33 Liberty St, New York, NY 10045, United States
Phone: +1 212-720-5000

Dear Fund Beneficiary:

We hereby bring to your notice that we discussed and arrived to a
better conclusion that we can no longer send the total Seven Million
Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars US$4,650,000,00 to you
via Western Union Or ATM CARD, Therefore we decided to send it to you
through the means of Online Bank Transfer, for Security reasons,
meanwhile you are required to follow the online process as to enable
you transfer the whole US$4,650,000,00 into your direct bank
transfer.

You have to reconfirm the following information to enable transfer of
the whole fund worth US$4,650,000,00 to your account .
Get back to us urgently with your bank details.

Account Name:
Account Number:
Bank Name:
City:
State:
Country:
Bank Address:

Yours In Service
Mr. Jerome H. Powell
Phone: +1 212-720-5000
Chief Executive Officer
For; FEDERAL RESERVE BANK (FRB)
Address: 33 Liberty St, New York, NY 10045, United States
Visit our website: https://www. newyorkfed.org/

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