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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: Jude Isiaka <judeisiaka11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <judeisiaka78@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 08:54:54 +0000
Subject: RE-PRESENTATIVES.


FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE.
P.M.B. 14, Garki, Abuja
Mobile Tel:+234 7010661246
Dated This Day: 04/0892014

CLAIM'S OF YOUR FUND VALUED US$6.5 MILLION BY SOME RE-PRESENTATIVES.

Good
Day to you and your family as i bring to you greetings in the name of
the LORD.I do like tolet you know that a power of attorney and an
Application Letter of Change of Ownership has been forwarded to my
office by MR. IBRAHIM MAL ALLA HAMMAD BIN HAMMAD AL SABRI a Citizen of
DUBAI,U.A.E,he claimed to be from you and and also stated that you sent
him to receive these fund 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 have died, they brought an
account to replace your informations and claimed your fund of $US6.5
Million which is right now put on HOLD in an Online Account that was
setup for these gentleman and the fund is with the First National Bank
Branch In Lagos Nigeria,and its highly secured and protected by a high
level security which makes nobody to withdraw any money from the account
until you or your family members confirms that you are alive and also
that these man is not from you.

ACCOUNT WHERE THESE MAN(YOUR RE-PRESENTATIVES) CHOOSED TO MAKE ONLINE
TRANSFER:
BANK NAME:- STANDARD BANK OF DUBAI
NAME OF ACCOUNT: IBRAHIM MAL ALLA HAMMAD BIN HAMMAD AL SABRI
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 2984-0008-660.
SWIFT CODE: BOPIPHMM.
AMOUNT FOR TRANSFER: US$6.5 MILLION.

Be
further informed 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 just happened ,I was Instructed to find out if it
really
happens or not before the fund will be transfered to them.Please these
email demands urgent response as whoever do read these if its you or a
family Member or Friend who has access to your email address ,should
respond immediately.

You are therefore given 48hrs to confirm the
truth in this information if you are still alive by responding back
immediately so that these office can know what actions to be
taken,because they are just insisting that we ORDER out the transfer of
which we are writting to you now on their absent to confirm if you are
still alive.Since no response from you all these while on how you can
get your fund released to you, we are now suspecting 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 office now and confirming if these people are
from you,or else we will transfer the fund to them.

Kindly Provide the following details for immediate actions to be carried out:
1:Your full names:
2:Your Complete address:
3:Your age and sex:
4:Your Occupation:
5:Your Tel/fax:
6: Your I.D CARD/INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT.

Note:
In case of any questions from you or your family members that reads
these email,call should be made direclt to my office mobile number:+234
7010661246.You or your family members should forward to me emails been
received from those IMPOSTERS for adequate investigations to be carried
out. You or your family members that reads these email should respond
back as i await immediate response.

Best regards,

JUDE ISIAKA
TEL:234 7010661246

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