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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" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <judeisiaka@inteligweb.com.br>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 12:48:47 -0700
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE.
P.M.B. 14, Garki, Abuja
Mobile Tel:+234 07059541143
Dated This Day: 03/04/2012

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 to let 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 is 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 it sounds curious that
such kind of a thing just happened ,I was Instructed to find out if it really happened or not before the fund will be transfered to them.
Please this email demands urgent response as whoever reads this email 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 this office can know what actions to be taken,because they are
just insisting that we ORDER out the transfer immediately. We are writting to you now on their absent to confirm if you are still alive.Since no response from you all this while on how you
can get your fund released to you, we are now suspecting that it might be true and that something strange might have happened and that
the story might be true, because the only evidence now is for you or your family members contacting this 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 07059541143.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

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