Scam email #255432 - Payment Release Notification From The Federal Reserve Bank.
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The email was sent on 2018-12-06 01:08:16 and appeared to be from innformcbnnnnpaymmentonl0@gmail.com but this address could have been spoofed.
If you replied to this email, your reply would have been sent to f_reservebanknewyork@aol.com which was the scammer's actual email address.
It was probably sent from 209.85.221.68 in Unknown, United States
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[email address removed] Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:08:16 +0000
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209.85.221.68
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pass (domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.221.68 as permitted sender)
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[209.85.221.68]
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mta4092.mail.bf1.yahoo.com from=gmail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=gmail.com; dkim=pass (ok)
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from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO mail-wr1-f68.google.com) (209.85.221.68)
by mta4092.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTPS; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:08:15 +0000
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by mail-wr1-f68.google.com with SMTP id b14so7688515wru.12
for [email address removed] Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:08:15 -0800 (PST)
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by 2002:adf:b6a1:: with SMTP id j33mr23285158wre.55.1544047694868;
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:08:14 -0800 (PST)
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1.0
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by 2002:a1c:60d4:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:08:14 -0800 (PST)
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[email address removed]
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Federal Reserve Bank New York [email address removed]
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Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:08:14 -0800
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Payment Release Notification From The Federal Reserve Bank.
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[email address removed]
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2348
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The scam
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045. USA.
Payment Release Notification From The Federal Reserve Bank.
DEAR CUSTOMER,
This is to officially inform you that we have been instructed to
release your over due contract Inheritance/ lottery Payment of $10.5
million to you without any further, and we will have no other option
than to believe that you are dead as claimed by one Mrs. Margaret
Thomson if you fail to respond back to our email this time.
As a matter of fact, we lost your Full Personal/ banking details after
our annual system upgrade which made it impossible for us to contact
you, and we were only able to find your email address after
searchlights on our documents.
Few weeks ago, a woman named Mrs. Margaret Thomson sent a letter to
our bank here in the United States claiming that you are dead and she
further stated that before you died, you informed her about your
contract Inheritance/ lottery payment worth $10.5 million which is
presently under our custody.
Note that Mrs. Margaret Thomson also sent a copy of your death
certificate to us in other to make her claim authentic, but we did not
believe her because you had never mentioned her as your next of kin to
us.
In fact, she has given us every reason to believe that you are dead
ashes claims, and she is ready to take care of what ever it will cost
her to get your funds transferred into her personal account, but Have
been instructed by the management of this bank to contact you
this last time in order to be sure that you are dead as she
claimed,before releasing the payment to her.
So are you dead or are you still alive? If yes, you have been advised
to urgently reconfirm your full personal/ banking details as requested
below to us immediately, in order for us to cancel every further
arrangement in regards to the release of your fund to Mrs. Margaret
Thomson.
However, We Shall Proceed To Issue All Payments Details To The Said
Mrs. Margaret Thomson If We Do Not Hear From You Within 48 banking
hours.
Your Urgent attention is needed if you are still alive.
Yours Faithfully,
For And On Behalf Of
Federal Reserve Bank
Mr.Walker Smith
President and CEO Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank. Registered in United States. Registered No.: 1026167.
Federal Reserve Bank is authorized and regulated by the Financial
SpamAssassin Report (spam score: 3.2)
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0.5 FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL From: localpart has series of non-vowel letters
0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP Message was received from an IP address
0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP4 Message was received from an IPv4 address
0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is
CUSTOM_MED
0.2 FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT Envelope-from freemail username ends in digit
(innformcbnnnnpaymmentonl0[at]gmail.com)
-0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record
0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail
provider (innformcbnnnnpaymmentonl0[at]gmail.com)
0.0 HK_SCAM_N2 BODY: No description available.
-0.0 RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 RBL: Average reputation (+2) [209.85.221.68 listed
in wl.mailspike.net]
-0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no
trust [209.85.221.68 listed in list.dnswl.org]
0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not
necessarily valid
0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money
0.1 DKIM_INVALID DKIM or DK signature exists, but is not valid
1.0 FREEMAIL_REPLYTO Reply-To/From or Reply-To/body contain different
freemails
1.2 NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED ADSP custom_med hit, and not from a mailing list
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