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mmmirele7/21/2017 8:15:18 pm PDT

Would there be interest in a Page about a resurgent scam going around where people are trying to do transfers or write checks on the Federal Reserve. This bad craziness is going around Facebook and YouTube. Here’s the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on it:

Video Scam Targeting Federal Reserve Bank Routing Numbers; Prosecution Possible
July 2017
Recently, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York became aware of a scheme promoted in online videos whereby individuals claim that U.S. citizens may make payments using fictitious accounts held at the Federal Reserve Banks. These fictitious accounts have been most commonly styled as secret accounts and/or Social Security trust accounts, and the individuals publishing the videos claim that substantial amounts are held within them for each U.S. citizen. To facilitate the scheme, the individuals publishing the videos have also offered bogus information on how other individuals may use online portals, such as bill-pay websites, to initiate payments from the fictitious accounts using Federal Reserve Bank routing numbers.

More at the link, but that’s what I’m talking about: newyorkfed.org

This scam has gone around before, but it seems to have caught fire in the last two weeks.