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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: "harrison mccqueeney" <mccqueeney2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hsbc_mccqueeney@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:57:19 -0700
Subject: hsbc bank london charles soludo contact us reach him

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Dear  friend.
 

i  am  Dr  mccqueeney.
 
kindly  advice  us  to  send  your  transfer  to  dormant  account  in  swiss  wolrld  bank  as  you  are  not  serious  to  get  your  last  paper  from  charles  soludo  and  i  will  advice  you  not  to  deal  with  any  other  bank to  avoid  bank  eggs  as  your  transfer  fund  was  with  our  hsbc  bank  london.

charles  soludo  told  us  that  he  has  cut  the  fees  to  little  amount  as  their  government  was  reduce  it  due  to  end  of  the  year  bonanza  for  all  central  bank  costomers.

so  kindly  reach  charles  soludo  he  will  give  you  reduce  amount.

regards  Dr mccqueeney  hsbc  bank  london.

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