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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: "Mr. James Rohner" <amichael@rcn.com>
Reply-To: jamesrohner@usa.com
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 04:09:22 -0700
Subject: Change Of Ownership Alert


Attn; I'm Dr. James Rohner, the Chief Executive Officer of the Minister 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. Kindly reco=
nfirm this application put in by Mrs. Jeanne White - she submitted the unde=
r listed bank account information supposedly sent by you to receive the fun=
ds on your behalf. The bank information she applied with are stated thus: A=
ccount Name: Mrs. Jeanne White Bank name: Citi Bank NA Bank address: #1230 =
Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA Account Number: 013439887655 Routi=
ng Number: 2771722 Swift Code: CITIUS30 The said Mrs. Jeanne White is claim=
ing to this office that you are dead and have Instructed that all relevant =
documentation/Information regarding your Payment/Transfer, be changed to he=
r as the beneficiary of the payment short-listed among the foreign benefici=
aries entitled to receive their payment. For your Information, this Governm=
ent has approved the total amount of EIGHT MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U=
NITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY, in your favor, prior to the Federal Government i=
nstructions/mandate to offset all outstanding payments to the various 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 dead as made =
mention by your Associate. You should note that, if we do not hear from you=
, we automatically assume that you are actually dead and the information pa=
ssed to us by Mrs. Jeanne White is correct. Hence, you are hereby requested=
to reply this Email immediately for confirmation, before we proceed with t=
his payment and for us to know the true position of things with you so that=
we won't make any mistakes/errors in remitting your out-standing payment t=
o a wrong person/account. Lastly, you are advice to reply back this email a=
nd reconfirm the details of this message if truly you're alive. Full name..=
.............................. Direct telephone number......... Address....=
................................ Age.......................................=
.... Occupation............................... Country.....................=
................ Bank name................................ Bank address....=
............................. Bank account.................................=
Account type................................. Your quick response will hel=
p us a lot. Yours, Sincerely, Dr James Rohner Rich. Email: jamesrohner@usa.=
com

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