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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. Daniel K. Tarullo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fredralreservebank@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 23:43:07 -0700
Subject: Attn: Beneficiary

Attn: Beneficiary

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 beneficiaries payment files received
from the World Bank Organization. Note that you are among the
beneficiaries that are due for payment. Your name was discovered as
next on the list out of the 11 outstanding beneficiaries who have not
yet received their payments during the years tenure of the previous
administration in office. Please bear with us for making this initial
contact through email. Meanwhile, a Random person tried making a
contact with this office a few days ago with a letter claiming to be
your true representative.

Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this Person
is from you or not so that the federal reserve Bank will not be held
responsible for paying into wrong beneficiary, if this woman is not
your representative, you requested to fill and send this information
as listened below for verifications purpose so that your fund valued
($10,500,000.00 usd) will be remitted in to your nominated bank
account and access without any further delay.

Kindly reconfirm to us the following for immediate transferring of
your fund to your bank account,
1. Beneficiary Full Name:
2. Home Address:
3. Drivers license/ int’l Passport:
4. Age:
5. occupation:
5. Your telephone number:

As soon as this information is received, your funds will be signed and
approved to your access directly from the Federal Reserve Bank New
York USA.

Fail to reply urgently. We shall proceed to issue all payments details
to the said Mrs. Annette stillman 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.

You alerted reply urgent

Sincerely,
Email:bankfederalreserve9@gmail.com
Mr. Daniel K. Tarullo
Fund Credit Officer Federal Reserve Bank
Address: 33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001

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