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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: kim Ho <kimho9191@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kimho9494@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:39:42 +0700
Subject: RE: PAYMENT OF US$600,000.00 INTEREST INTO YOUR ACCOUNT:


Hong Kong And Shanghai Banking Corporation
From: The Desk of
Miss. Kim Ho .
Managing Director,

RE: PAYMENT OF US$600,000.00 INTEREST INTO YOUR ACCOUNT:

I am Miss Kim Ho, Managing Director, Corporate Services Division and Head
of Swift Transfer Unit of Hong Kong And Shanghai Banking Corporation.
We are contacting you because we have just discovered that sometime ago,
your inheritance fund was brought to our bank from National Lotto Group
here in Asia and after some period, and the money was taken back to their
treasury.
But for the period of time this money was in our bank, it generated an
interest of US$600,000.00 which we
are about to pay you through our bank in Bangkok Thailand Asia. Hong Kong
and Shanghai Banking Corporation. (HSBC).Bank Plc.
For your information and advice, you need to hasten up to pick this Fund
because the National Lotto Group auditors may come to our bank to
cross-check our files and our financial update, because when the
auditors arrive and find out that this interest fund is still in our bank
they will call back the accrued interest to the lotto treasury account.

What we need from you now is any form of your identification for example;
Your International passport or your driverlicense; your telephone and fax
number for easy communication to you with you mailing address which will be
used in preparing your claim document.
As a matter of fact we don’t have enough time to waste since we have wasted
time in contacting you through phone but we could not get through.

CONTACT: Miss. Kim
.E-Mail:kimho9494@gmail.com

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