419 scam: "Mr. Jonah Otunla"<testmail@lentea.com> NOTIFICATION

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Jonah Otunla" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jonahotunlame@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 03:37:02 -0800
Subject: NOTIFICATION

FROM: MR. JONAH OTUNLA
Natwest Bank Plc London U.K.

Attention Please,

I am the above person working with the Natwest Bank in London U.K, I
recently notice a deposit amount of US5.5M in your name as the
beneficiary with our Bank kept in an escrow Account since almost two
years. This said amount has been dormant for a very long time.

After my in-depth verification exercise I discovered that some people
actually instated your name as the beneficiary of the fund originally
belong to a late depositor/beneficiary and because necessary
application for release were not completed by you, that is the reason
why the fund has not been release.

Despite this my findings, I have decided to keep it to myself just to
ensure that the deposit is released to you and am favorably disposed
to assist you in this claim release to you without any delay.

For this reason, I have decided to personally contact you via the
email found in the attached documents to confirm if you are still
alive or not.

It will not benefit me if this fund is confiscated or diverted if
eventually nobody comes up to claim the fund so I decided to contact
you on this findings and development.

I will await your immediate response for confirmation and further
directives so that you can contact the bank officially.

Regards,

Mr. Jonah Otunla

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