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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.PATRICK DAVIS <info@ermannobasso.it>
Reply-To: <patrickdavisoffice@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:17:23 -0700
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

From the Desk Of:
Mr.PATRICK DAVIS
Executive Director
International Payment Department
CITI FINANCE BANK OF GEORGIA


Re:-Your Fund Transfer Notice.

Attn: Beneficiary: THIS IS CONFIDENTIAL.

I am Mr PATRICK DAVIS. I work in the information unit of the CITI FINANCE BANK OF GEORGIA fund information board, all unpaid contract/inheritance fund claims worth

of $10,500,000 USD are recorded through this office and your name has long appeared in the record as one of the beneficiaries whose fund claim is yet to be paid.

As I write this mail, your fund is in CITI FINANCE Online fixed deposit Checking account yielding some huge interest for some top officials in CITI FINANCE and their

cohorts in the ministry of finance. Although they do not have the authority to take over completely your fund, the worst they can do is what they have done, to pretend

that they are working on the release of your fund and in the process diverted it into a fixed deposit account, which has been yielding huge interest for them.

I am aware of what people like you is going through trying to receive your long over due fund,this is what prompted my contacting you. Each time I go to bed my

conscience pricks me telling me to expose the truth to you, as a true Christian I have no alternative than to do what my conscience tells me, knowing fully well that

whenever you receive your fund you won't forget me.I have made my mind to remain steadfast on the way of truth and nothing can waver my faith against that.


Meanwhile, you are advise to confirm your fund from CITI FINANCE online banking system been deposited in your name as the real beneficiary by following the bellow

instructions to access your fund online before moving forward to transfer out your fund deposited in CITI FINANCE online to any of your state or country personal bank

account where your fund will be safe and secured for you as the government has giving an order to the fund confiscation department to terminate your online after

frozen out your fund and move the fund to government suspend account as unclaimed and abandon fund after 6 bank working days of deadline to claim your fund through

CITI FINANCE online bank department system.

For this transaction to be protected,you are advise to stop every further communication with any other people claiming to have your fund in their bank because non of

them have any fund to pay to you only from our bank here in which we have decided to file out to you the online account details where your fund is been deposited into

your name as the real and rightful owner.

YOUR SECURE ONLINE BANKING ACCOUNT INFORMATION STATED BELLOW FOR YOUR OWN ACCESS AND TRANSFER.

Your Online Account Link :( *******************************************************
Account User- Name ( ************* ) IN CAPITAL LETTER WORD

Your Online Account Password ( 3095662311 )IN SMALL LETTER WORD


You can as well go into our bank website of ********************************* you will find user name ( *************** ) and password ( 3095662311 ) icon where

you will enter your online account user name and password to follow instructions for online transaction, you can as well re-change your password to your personal

secret new password that no one will ever have the password to access your online only you the online account beneficiary

Thanks for your urgent response to this effect with the required information stated above.

Mr.PATRICK DAVIS
Executive Director
International Payment Department
CITI FINANCE BANK OF GEORGIA
patrickdavisoffice@aol.com

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