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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: "Jessica Danladi" <jjkk123@att.net>
Reply-To: <jessicadanladi@y7mail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:38:25 -0000
Subject: Dear Friend

Dear Friend

We the Coris Bank International wish to say good day to you and your family and I hope all is well. I do like to let you know that a power of attorney and a Letter of Change of Ownership account has been forwarded to our bank by one MR. IBRAHIM HAMMAD BIN HAMMAD AL SABRI a Citizen of DUBAI, U.A.E, he claimed to be your family member or send by you and also stated that you sent him to receive the fund US$10.3 million on your behalf.

I want you to know that your Registered Previous Personal Details which is now in my Office was forwarded to me by the Central Bank Governor and the Transfer Unit as well. This man claimed to be the representative of your Family, and this power of attorney stated that you are dead and he brought an account to replace your account information and claimed your fund which is right now put on HOLD for these gentleman and its highly secured and protected by a high level security which makes nobody to be able to withdraw any money from the account until you or your family members confirms that you are alive by submitting all those needed documents which we have told him to submit been the three legal documents and you should come down

ACCOUNT WHERE THE MAN (YOUR RE-REPRESENTATIVES) CHOOSE TO MAKE ONLINE TRANSFER are:
BANK NAME: STANDARD BANK OF DUBAI
NAME OF ACCOUNT: IBRAHIM HAMMAD BIN HAMMAD AL SABRI
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 2984-0008-660.
SWIFT CODE: BOPIPHMM.

Be inform that this power of attorney also stated that you suffered and died of a throat cancer. All you just have to do is for you to confirm if you are really alive, because its sound furious that such kind of a thing do happened, I was Instructed to find out if it real or not before the fund will be transferred to them. Please these email demands urgent response as whosoever that read these mail should urgent reply immediately.

You are therefore given 72hrs to confirm the truth in this information if you are still alive by responding back immediately with those documents needed so that these office can know next line of actions to be taken, because they are just insisting that we ORDER out the transfer of which we are writing to you now on their absent to confirm if you are still alive.

Finally if no response from you before the giving date on how you can get your fund released to you, we shall now suspect that it might be true and funny that something strange might have happened and that the story might be true, because the only evidence now is you or your family members contacting these Coris Bank International now and confirming if these people are from you, or else we will transfer the fund to them immediately they submit the three documents. Kindly Provide the following details for immediate actions to be carried out:

1: Your full names:.........
2: Your Complete address:.....
3: Your age.........
4: Your Occupation:............
5: Your Tel:.........
6: Your Fax..........
7: Your Sex........
8: Your Bank Name.........
9: Your Bank Address............
10: Your Account Number.........
11: Your Full Name.............

Thanks and be bless
Miss Jessica Danladi

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