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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Fraud email example:

From: "CBN PAYMENT OFFICE" <johnbond@uku.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: tundelemo_cbn@inbox.com
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:16:38 +0100
Subject: We Awaits Your Reply


HSBC Bank PLC Moore Stephens Warwick Lane
London EC4P 4BN HSBC Bank PLC
27/32 Poultry London EC2P 2BX Date: 8th
MAR 2005
File Ref: HSBC/006/WT
Total No: Pages= cover +01

Tel: 447040104107; 447075055815

If you do not receive all pages, please call us
immediately.

Urgent: yes No

Confidential yes No

FSA, United Kingdom

From: Sir John Bond
Chairman of London-based banking giant HSBC Holdings
PLC.

To: BENEFICIARY
PART PAYMENT OF 10 MILLION DOLLARS APPROVED.

This is meant for the payment from our ordering customer Federal Government of Nigeria for the further Credit to your bank account. With all due respect our bank has obliged to credit your account with
instruction quoting reference payment code which the Federal Government of Nigeria uses to encode their consolidated crude oil reserved account with us and this is as per agreement existing between this bank,
World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the Federal Government of Nigeria.

In line with LONDON Financial and allied conduct, your account will be credited as soon as you reconcile the 0.2% handling charges or you may advise us to deduct the total value and transfer the balance to your
account.

Should you be willing to accept deduction, our bank is thereby urging you to, as a matter of urgency to call or contact the office of the Deputy Governor Central Bank of Nigeria Mr. Tunde Lemo for brief and please request him to issue the Deduction Clearance Certificate to you which will be legally endorsed by you as the beneficiary to enable us have the legitimate right to deduct 0.2% as handling charges
from your principle amount.

Please be warned as our bank will not tolerate any second party involvement or Nigeria local representatives, you are advise as a matter of urgency to call or contact the office of the Deputy Governor
Central Bank of Nigeria Mr.TUNDE LEMO on Email to (tundelemo_cbn@inbox.com) for brief on the modalities of how you will be paid and to give attention to any of this instruction due to
irregularities involved in the activities of Nigerian Banks and it’s officials. Prior to our banking regulations, final credit shall be made to youraccount upon receipt of 0.2% handling charges or the
Deduction Clearance Certificate.




Yours faithfully,
Sir John Bond
Chairman of London-based banking giant HSBC Holdings
PLC.

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