419 scam: "World Bank Notice."<williamsaha@freenet.de> Re:Did you authorized him to receive your funds?

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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:

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:
- "million 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)
- "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
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.
- w.saha@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "World Bank Notice." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <w.saha@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:23:47 +0200
Subject: Re:Did you authorized him to receive your funds?

From: World Bank, United Nations
The Chairman Committee International Fund Remittance with African Union
In conjunction with Standard Chartered Bank Plc Accra -Ghana.

To whom it may Concern.

The World Bank, United Nations and African Union Organization has approved to pay you $3 Million(Three Million United States Dollars Only ) as part of your outstanding payment in conjunction with Standard Chartered Bank Plc as our paying bank.

With this development, a man by name (David S. Yarbrough) has forwarded an application letter to us stating that when you are sick you gave him the Power of Attorney to claim your fund on your behalf .He told us that you are dead and that he is your next of kin. We decided to contact you to find out if you if this is true and also to find if at any time gave him the power of attorney to claim your fund.

Kindly let us know as our paying bank is almost ready to transfer this fund to his nominated bank account stated below:

NAME: DAVID S.YARBROUGH
ADDRESS: 11231 BEECHWOOD LANE WOODBURY, MN 55129-9403
BANK: BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
ADDRESS: 1290 AVE AMERICUS FLOOR 5 NEW YORK, NY 10104
CREDIT ACCOUNT: 8900624744
SWIFT CODE: I R V T U S 3 N

However, our paying bank shall proceed payment to him if we do not hear from you within the next five working days from today. Also be informed that based on our paying bank payment procedures he has accepted to pay $970 only for the issuance of the mandatory Inheritance Award Certificate to enable our paying bank wire this funds to his account but this is not the issue but to make sure we do not make wrong payment and that’s why we decided to inform you about this man first before the transfer as we will not bear the consequences if any wrong payment is made.

Get back to me on this Private email: w.saha@aol.com ,Telephone +233208525524.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. William Saha
Remittance Director
African Office Of World Bank

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