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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "Andrew Nestor III"<postmaster@rdvial.gob.do>
Reply-To: drgeorgejonnymensa0002@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:43:50 -0300
Subject: CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP ALART !!!


Attn; I'm Dr. Lawrence George Mensa, the Chief Executive Officer of the Min=
ister of Finance. We wish to urgently confirm from you if actually you know=
one Mrs. Jeanne White who claims to be your business associate/partner. Ki=
ndly reconfirm this application put in by Mrs. Jeanne White - she submitted=
the under listed bank account information supposedly sent by you to receiv=
e the funds on your behalf. 0The bank information she applied with are stat=
ed thus: Account Name: Mrs. Jeanne White Bank name: Citi Bank NA Bank addre=
ss: #1230 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA Account Number: 01343988=
7655 Routing Number: 2771722 Swift Code: CITIUS30 The said Mrs. Jeanne Whit=
e is claiming to this office that you are dead and have Instructed that all=
relevant documentation/Information regarding your Payment/Transfer, be cha=
nged to her as the beneficiary of the payment short-listed among the foreig=
n beneficiaries entitled to receive their payment. For your Information, th=
is Government has approved the total amount of EIGHT MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED =
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY, in your favor, prior to the Federal Go=
vernment instructions/mandate to offset all outstanding payments to the var=
ious legal foreign beneficiaries around the world and your payment file was=
affected. We need to confirm from you if it's really true that you are dea=
d as made mention by your Associate. You should note that, if we do not hea=
r from you, we automatically assume that you are actually dead and the info=
rmation passed to us by Mrs. Jeanne White is correct. Hence, you are hereby=
requested to reply this Email immediately for confirmation, before we proc=
eed with this payment and for us to know the true position of things with y=
ou so that we won't make any mistakes/errors in remitting your out-standing=
payment to a wrong person/account. Lastly, you are advice to reply back th=
is email and reconfirm the details of this message if truly you're alive. F=
ull name................................. Direct telephone number......... =
Address.................................... Age............................=
............... Occupation............................... Country..........=
........................... Bank name................................ Bank =
address................................. Bank account......................=
........... Account type................................. Your quick respon=
se will help us a lot. Yours, Sincerely, Dr Lawrence Mensa. One Terminal Dr=
ive, Middletown

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