419 scam: "Mr. George Mensa"<mn28@tularegion.ru> Re: Change of ownership alert...

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- drgeorgejonnymensa@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. George Mensa" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drgeorgejonnymensa@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 02:12:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Change of ownership alert...

Attn;

I'm Mr. George Mensa, the Chief Executive Officer of the Minister
of Finance. We wish to urgently confirm from you if actually you
know one Mr. Gene Duncan who claims to be your business
associate/partner.

Kindly reconfirm this application put in by Mr. Gene Duncan - he
submitted the under listed bank account information supposedly
sent by you to receive the funds on your behalf.

The bank information he applied with are stated thus:

Account Name: Mr. Gene A. Duncan
Bank name: Global Federal Credit Union
Bank address: 1520 West Third Avenue Spokane, WA 99220
Account Number: 789170461820
Routing Number: 325180595

The said Mr. Gene Duncan is claiming to this office that you are
dead and have Instructed that all relevant
documentation/Information regarding your
Payment/Transfer, be changed to him 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 Mr. Gene Duncan is correct. Hence,
you are hereby requested to reply 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.

Your quick response will help us a lot.

Yours, Sincerely,
Mr. George Mensa.
drgeorgejonnymensa@gmail.com

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