Email Scam Example: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

This is an email received about “Federal Reserve Bank of New York” is a phishing scam and why not try to contact these people or log onto these sites and enter your data because you risk being stolen.

Letter About “Federal Reserve Bank of New York” From Scammer:

Atten:Beneficiary!!Payment Notification of Your $22.5m inf

Head Office
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045

Atten:Beneficiary,

We apologies 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 case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments, we apologies once again.

From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with federal Government of U.S.A your name was discovered as next on the list out of the 11 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 $95 the wire/transfer charge to have the fund delivered to her. Here is her information’s 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 beheld responsible for paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your representative, you requested to fill and send this information’s for verification purpose so that your fund valued ($22.5m usd) 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 only money you pay for the transfer to take place is just $95 being the approval payment certification from the government 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 Nigeria .Do contact us immediately,for the payment details.

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 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.

Awaiting your urgent response.

Janet L. Yellen
Chairman Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve Bank