Email Scam Example: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York

<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;15387" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-15387" style&equals;"width&colon; 336px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;federal-reserve-bank-of-new-york-2&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-15387"><img class&equals;"wp-image-15387" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;Federal-Reserve-Bank-of-New-York-1-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Federal Reserve Bank of New York" width&equals;"336" height&equals;"336" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-15387" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em>Federal Reserve Bank of New York<&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em style&equals;"background-color&colon; white&semi; border&colon; 0px&semi; box-sizing&colon; inherit&semi; font-family&colon; Lato&comma; sans-serif&semi; font-size&colon; 18px&semi; font-stretch&colon; inherit&semi; letter-spacing&colon; 0&period;16px&semi; line-height&colon; 29&period;25px&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi; text-align&colon; justify&semi; vertical-align&colon; baseline&semi;"><span style&equals;"border-image-outset&colon; initial&semi; border-image-repeat&colon; initial&semi; border-image-slice&colon; initial&semi; border-image-source&colon; initial&semi; border-image-width&colon; initial&semi; border&colon; 0px&semi; box-sizing&colon; inherit&semi; font-family&colon; inherit&semi; font-size&colon; inherit&semi; font-stretch&colon; inherit&semi; font-variant&colon; inherit&semi; line-height&colon; inherit&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi; vertical-align&colon; baseline&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;333333&semi; font-style&colon; inherit&semi; font-weight&colon; bold&semi;">This is an email received about &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;em><b><i><span style&equals;"color&colon; red&semi;">Federal Reserve Bank of New York<&sol;span><&sol;i><&sol;b><em style&equals;"background-color&colon; white&semi; border&colon; 0px&semi; box-sizing&colon; inherit&semi; font-family&colon; Lato&comma; sans-serif&semi; font-size&colon; 18px&semi; font-stretch&colon; inherit&semi; letter-spacing&colon; 0&period;16px&semi; line-height&colon; 29&period;25px&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi; text-align&colon; justify&semi; vertical-align&colon; baseline&semi;"><span style&equals;"border-image-outset&colon; initial&semi; border-image-repeat&colon; initial&semi; border-image-slice&colon; initial&semi; border-image-source&colon; initial&semi; border-image-width&colon; initial&semi; border&colon; 0px&semi; box-sizing&colon; inherit&semi; font-family&colon; inherit&semi; font-size&colon; inherit&semi; font-stretch&colon; inherit&semi; font-variant&colon; inherit&semi; line-height&colon; inherit&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi; vertical-align&colon; baseline&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;333333&semi; font-style&colon; inherit&semi; font-weight&colon; bold&semi;">” 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&period;<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 id&equals;"letter-about-8220federal-reserve-bank-of-new-york8221-from-scammer" class&equals;"rb-heading-index-0-15386">Letter About &&num;8220&semi;<em>Federal Reserve Bank of New York<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi; From Scammer&colon;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 id&equals;"attenbeneficiarypayment-notification-of-your-225m-inf" class&equals;"rb-heading-index-1-15386 hP">Atten&colon;Beneficiary&excl;&excl;P<wbr &sol;>ayment Notification of Your &dollar;22&period;5m inf<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Head Office<br &sol;>&NewLine;Federal Reserve Bank of New York<br &sol;>&NewLine;33 Liberty Street<br &sol;>&NewLine;New York&comma; NY 10045<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Atten&colon;Beneficiary&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we might put you through&comma; while we were having some minor problems with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments&comma; we apologies once again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with federal Government of U&period;S&period;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&period; Meanwhile&comma; a woman came to this bank a few days ago with a letter claiming to be your true representative and is willing to pay &dollar;95 the wire&sol;transfer charge to have the fund delivered to her&period; Here is her information’s below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Name&colon; Mrs&period;Annette stillman<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bank name&colon; Citibank &comma; Arizona &comma; USA &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Account Number&colon; <a href&equals;"tel&colon;6503809008">6503809008<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;Routing number&colon; 322271627<br &sol;>&NewLine;Swift code&num;&colon;WMSBUS66<br &sol;>&NewLine;Address&colon; 1723 Palmdale Bulv<br &sol;>&NewLine;Palmdale ca&period;&period;93550<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>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&comma; if this woman is not your representative&comma; you requested to fill and send this information’s for verification purpose so that your fund valued &lpar;&dollar;22&period;5m usd&rpar; will be remitted in to your nominated bank account&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1&period; Bank Name&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;2&period; Bank account number&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;3&period; Route number&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;4&period; Swift code&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;5&period; Bank name&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;6&period; Company name&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;7&period; Position&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;8&period; Address&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;9&period; Working Id&sol; int’l Passport<br &sol;>&NewLine;10&period; Age&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;11&period; Your telephone number<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Secondly&comma;the only money you pay for the transfer to take place is just &dollar;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 &period;Do contact us immediately&comma;for the payment details&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As soon as the Payment information is received&comma; your funds will be wired to your bank account directly from Federal Reserve Bank New York USA&comma;We shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mrs&period; Annette Stillman if we do not hear from you within the next three working days from today&period; We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have caused you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Awaiting your urgent response&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Janet L&period; Yellen<br &sol;>&NewLine;Chairman Board of Governors&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Federal Reserve Bank<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<table class&equals;"ajC" cellpadding&equals;"0">&NewLine;<tbody>&NewLine;<tr class&equals;"UszGxc ajv">&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gG" colspan&equals;"2"><span class&equals;"gI">from&colon;<&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gL" colspan&equals;"2">&NewLine;<h4 id&equals;"federal-reserve-bank" class&equals;"rb-heading-index-2-15386 gI"><span class&equals;"gI"><span class&equals;"gD">Federal Reserve Bank<&sol;span> <&sol;span><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"gI"><span class&equals;"go gD">&lt&semi;info&commat;spiritlakemarine&period;com&gt&semi;<&sol;span> <&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr class&equals;"ajv">&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gG" colspan&equals;"2"><span class&equals;"gI">reply-to&colon;<&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gL" colspan&equals;"2"><span class&equals;"gI">alvaradolgas&commat;gmail&period;com<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr class&equals;"ajv">&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gG" colspan&equals;"2"><span class&equals;"gI">to&colon;<&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gL" colspan&equals;"2"><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr class&equals;"ajv">&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gG" colspan&equals;"2"><span class&equals;"gI">date&colon;<&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gL" colspan&equals;"2"><span class&equals;"gI">Sat&comma; Oct 31&comma; 2015 at 7&colon;49 AM<&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr class&equals;"ajv">&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gG" colspan&equals;"2"><span class&equals;"gI">subject&colon;<&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td class&equals;"gL" colspan&equals;"2"><span class&equals;"gI">Atten&colon;Beneficiary&excl;&excl;Payment Notification of Your &dollar;22&period;5m inf<&sol;span><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<&sol;tbody>&NewLine;<&sol;table>&NewLine;

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