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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 DOUGLAS SCARBRO <yaomalik7@gmail.com>
Reply-To: federalreservebank20134@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:21:51 +0100
Subject:

33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001 Federal Reserve Bank
Headquarters: 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

From the desk of Mr DOUGLAS SCARBRO

Attention Dear, Greetings From Federal Reserve Bank New York and
United States Integration, I am hereby to inform you that an alert
came to us today from a United Nation Official through the help of
Federal Bureau of Investigation {FBI}. And according to the reporter,
World bank organization together with United State Embassy Benin
Republic, have approved to compensate You as a scam victim with the
Sum of $15.5miilon, and your email address was found among the 10
lucky beneficiaries, M
meanwhile the fund will be release this week as soon as the
beneficiary meetup/comply with the instruction/requirements.

We apologize for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences
we might put you through, while we were having some minor problems
with our payment system which in all cases did not meet up with fund
beneficiary payments, we apologies once again.

From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with the
federal Government of U.S.A your name was discovered as next on the
list out of the 10 outstanding contractors who have not yet received
their payments during the 3 years tenure of the previous
administration in office. Please bear with us for making this initial
contact through email. Meanwhile, a woman came to this bank a few days
ago with a letter claiming to be your true representative and is
willing to pay For the wire/transfer charge of $380 to have the fund
delivered to her. Here is her information below.

Name: Mrs.Annette stillman
Bank name: Citibank , Arizona , USA .
Account Number: 6503809008
Routing number: 322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 1723 Palmdale Bulv
Palmdale ca..93550

Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman
is from you or not so that the federal government will not be held
responsible for paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your
representative, you requested to fill and send this information for
verification purpose so that your fund valued ($15.5millon) will be
remitted in to your nominated bank account.

Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following

1. Bank Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Bank name:
6. Company name:
7. Position:
8. Address:
9. Working Id/ int’l Passport
10. Age:
11. Your telephone number

Secondly,the law stated that every beneficiaries will take care of the
expense base on your favorable means of receiving the only money you
have to pay for the transfer to take place is just $380 being the
approval payment certification from the American Embassy office in
Benin Republic, and you are giving a limited time to send the 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 Still man if we do not hear from you within the next three
working days from today. We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay
in transferring of your fund must have caused you.a

We await your urgent reply

Sincerely,
Mr. DOUGLAS SCARBRO
Email address: (federalreservebank20134@gmail.com)
Phone number:+1(315)690-4074
Director a Federal Reserve Bank
33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001

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