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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: paglenn1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:20:04 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HSBC=20=20LONDON?=

8 Canada Square London,United Kingdom,
Email:(hsbc_london1@138mail.com)

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Sir Paul Glenn, one of the Director of HSBC Bank, London, United Kingdom.

On the 2nd of January 2005, I received a call that one of my customer died
in the Tsunami Disaster with his wife and only child while on vacation at
Phuket Island in Thailand. Since then I have made several enquiries to locate
any of my customer's extended relatives and until date have not succeeded.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by
myclient before it gets confiscated by our bank or declared unserviceable
by our bank where this deposit is lodged. Now,the bank Directors has called
a board meeting regarding this Funds.So my main motive right now is to share
this great oppportunity with you by presenting you as the Next of Kin to
the Deceased since all his banking details are with me as his personal Account
Officer. And the deceased Account valued at US$15,700.000 (Fifteen Million
Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the biological relatives of my
late client, I hereby seek your consent to present you to the bank as next-of-kin
of the deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the proceeds of this
account valued at US$15,700.000 thousand can be transferred to you as inh
eritance and thereafter, you and me can share the money; 50% to me and 40%
to you,

while 10% will be donated to the Tsunami Disaster Charity Fund. We shall
start the first transfer with US$5,000.000.00 (Five Million United States
Dollars only), upon the successful actualization of the first transfer without
any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of
the remaining amount to your account. I have the original copy of Certificate
of Deposit of the funds, which will be used to substantiate our inheritance
claims. All I require is your consent and honest co-operation to enable
us see the deal through.

Furthermore, I guarantee that the transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Please contact
me if you are interested immediately via my personal email:(hsbc_london1@138mail.com)
to enable us commence on the transaction.

Thank you.
With best regards,

Sir Paul Glenn.





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