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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024015340 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "hsbclondon45" <hsbclondon45@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:19:23 -0600
Subject: RECEIVE YOUR MONEY FROM HSBC BANK LONDON,STOP THOSE ILLEGAL BANKS,





HSBC OFFSHORE BANK
HEAD QUARTER BRITISH
BOX 1126 LONDON
PHONE :44-7024015382
PHONE: 44-7024015340
FAX:44-8704783003
HSBC OFFSHORE BANK
HEAD QUARTER BRITISH
BOX 1126 LONDON
PHONE :44-7024015382
PHONE: 44-7024015340
FAX:44-8704783003
ATTN: sir
HSBC BANK London is hereby to inform you that we received your Money from Central Bank of West Africa from the trust central bank and genuine bank who want your favour not want your transfer money to get lost as they contacted us to make sure we must credit your fund so that you will receive your fund in this successful transfer arrangement.
Before I procced I will like to introduce my humble self to you,I am Dr HARRISON MCCQUEENEY Transfer Telegraphic Officer HSBC BANK London United kingdom.

Certainly As a mater of fact, We want to transfer
your fund to any of your overseas bank account
US$,22.500,000.00 USD) Twenty Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Wich our HSBC BANK received from the Central Bank of Africa, I want you to quietly issue us with any of your present functioning bank account that will be capable and fit to receive your fund without further delay and immediately you receive this money I must make trip to your country for compensation but you will make sure that you will remain honestly to me till the end of the final transfer of your fund so that i will trust you and belive in God that you will never let me down either now or in near future.
During the time of our auditor, HSBC BANK discover
the fund of the above mentioned amount in baseless account opened in our bank as your personal fund but since then nobody was operating this account, That is why HSBC BANK Decided to contact you for the Transfer of the said Fund (US$,22.500,000.000.00 USD )to your current bank account, now you have to furnish us with all your Bank Information including your phone and fax to enable us proceed and credit your Fund Before I will Travel meet you face to face in your Country to share Joy Together for you to compensate us.
What HSBC BANK Want from you now as urgent is:
1 ) Your Bank Account.
2) Your personal phone and fax.
3 ) the name of your Agent in Your bank if at all you have Agent but if not
dont worry.
4 ) The Affidavit of Claim To Enable us attach to your file and credit your
Fund.
Bear in mind that after credited your fund you must compensate us as bank wokers who play roll to credit your fund.
treat as most confidential to avoid those bad eggs of the world not to discover our contact / your contact or your companies name because they are not honesty.
call me in London united kingdom for oral discussion:
Regards: DR HARRISON MCCQUEENEY.
PHONE : 44-7024015382
PHONE: 44-7024015340
FAX: 44-8704783003

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