This is a joke! The scammers are using Bernanke's name in the scam!

From The Desk of: Mr.Ben S. Bernanke Chairman,
Federal Reserve System.

Urgent Attention:

To whom it may concern,re:contract fund credit from federal reserve
system We received the payment instructional letter from office of the
U.S vice president named Joseph Biden and secretary of the state,
Hillary Rodham Clinton to credit contract part payment valued at one
million, five hundred thousand United States Dollars only to your bank
account.

Hi,
I had advertised some brooches on Craigslist. A person had enquired and ended up ordering everything i had on stock worth USD315. However, she only later admitted that although she was in UK she wanted the items to be sent to Ghana. (This raised the first red flag).

419 Scammers like to use "real names" for their scams.

"HELLO,I AM MOTHER JANE COLE HAMMARSKJOLD FROM NETHERLAND, A WIDOW TO LATE DAG HAMMARSKJODE, I'M A OLD WOMAN,I AM A NEW CHRISTIAN CONVERT SUFFERING FROM LONG TIME CANCER OF THE BREAST.... I SELECTED YOU THROUGH GOOGLE AND I PRAYED FOR THREE WEEKS OVER IT WITH THE ADVICE OF MY PASTOR, I AM WILLING TO DONATE THE SUM OF $19.5M U.S DOLLARS"

Wow Wow Wow! I got this!

"I am a Chief Internal Auditor at AMERICAN EXPRESS BANK of South Africa (AMEX SA). I am writing to seek your cooperation over business deal. In my Department, I discovered an abandoned sum of (US$35.7Million). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, The account belongs to the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America and contractor with Anglo Gold."