Please verify if subject bank is real. Its web page does not give
location and address.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 06 May 2004 20:29 PDT

Can you post a link to the Web page?

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Clarification of Question by foresight469-ga on 07 May 2004 17:49 PDT

Here's the web page: http://www.pacific-bankci.com/eng/eng.htm

Hello.

It's a scam.

The web site is registered to post office box in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Africa:

See: Whois pacific-bankci.com
http://www.whois.sc/pacific-bankci.com

See this message from on the clickafrique messageboard:

"If you have received an unsolicited email promising you lots of money
in return for assistance in removing money left by someone who has
died, been arrested or some other reason, then you are about to be
scammed.
99.99% of the questions about banks in Africa invariably are asked
because of these reasons.
 I have never heard of a pacific bank in Cote d'Ivoire and doubt if one exists."
http://www.clickafrique.com/forum/ShowTopic.asp?TopicNo=1211

"PACIFIC BANK" shows up in emails that are sent out as part of African-based scams:

See the results of this Google search
"pacific bank" scam nigerian
://www.google.com/search?q=%22pacific+bank%22+scam+nigerian&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1

Here's a typical scam email mentioning "Pacific Bank", cached by Google:
"I NEED YOUR INVESTMENT CO-OPERATION."
Shortened url courtesy of snipurl:
http://snipurl.com/68j3


The internet is littered with examples of these scams. See:
MAJOR INTERNET FRAUDS - Nigerian 419 Scams
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/internetfraud/nigerian419.htm

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search strategy:
whois: pacific-bankci.com
"pacific bank" "ivory coast"
"pacific bank" scam nigerian

I hope this helps.

You never have failed me so far! Thanks!

Thank you for the tip.
-juggler