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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: Dr George Mensa<info@lee.com>
Reply-To: hsbcbankonline21@gmail.com
Date: 24 Dec 2019 20:47:22 -0800
Subject: CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP ALERT........

Attn;

I'm Dr George Mensa, 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 reconfirm this application put in by Mrs. Jeanne White -
she submitted the under listed bank account information
supposedly sent by you to receive the funds on your behalf.OF The
bank information she applied with are stated Below,

Account Name: Mrs. Jeanne White
Bank name: Citi Bank NA
Bank address: #1230 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Account Number: 013439887655
Routing Number: 2771722
Swift Code: CITIUS30

The said Mrs. Jeanne White is claiming to this office that you
are dead and have Instructed that all relevant
documentation/Information regarding your Payment/Transfer,be
changed to her as the beneficiary of the payment short-listed
among the foreign beneficiaries entitled to receive their
payment.

For your Information, this Government has approved the total
amount of EIGHT MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS ONLY, in your favor, prior to the Federal Government


instructions/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 passed to us by Mrs. Jeanne White is correct. Hence,
you are hereby requested to reply to this Email

immediately for confirmation, before we proceed with this 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 to a wrong person/account.

Lastly, you are advice to reply back to this email:
Cooper_garrison@outlook.com
and reconfirm your 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 help us a lot.

Yours, Sincerely,
Dr George Mensa.

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