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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: "Hall Trevor" <info@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hall.trevor98@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:51:47 +0800
Subject: Business Proposal




Good Day,

I know this is an unconventional way of introducing a big and profitable
business deal, but I however want you to take your time to read my letter
carefully, you will

understand the necessity for my action. I got your email address from the
Ministry of Commerce Directory

I am Hall Trevor, staff of International Private Banking at HSBC BANK
London. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an
investment he placed under our

banks management three years ago. I would respectfully request that you
keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of
the information you

come by as a result of this mail.

I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed
of this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts
that I believe would

be of interest to you. In 2001, the subject matter came to our bank to
engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He
informed us that he had a

financial portfolio of Twenty Two Million United States Dollars
($22,000,000.00 USD),which he wished to have us turn over(invest) on his
behalf. I was the officer

assigned to his case; I was made numerous suggestions in line with my
duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the private banking
sector, especially given

the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank.We met on numerous
occasions prior to any investments being placed. I encouraged him to
consider various growth

funds with prime ratings. The favored route in my advice to customers is
to start by assessing data on 6000 traditional stocks and bond managers
and 2000 managers of

alternative investments.Based on my advice, we spun the money around
various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of
operation,the accrued

profit and interest stood at this point at over ten million United States
Dollars, this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired
low risk

guaranteed returns on investments.

In mid 2002, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in here in the United
Kingdom.He directed

that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm here in
London. I informed him that HSBC Plc would have to make special
arrangements to have this done

and in order not to circumvent due process, the bank would have to make a
9.5 % deduction from the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges.
He complained

about the charges but later came around when I explained to him the
complexities of the task he was asking of us. Cash movement across
boarders has become especially

strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate in here in
London and made the funds available to the security firm. I undertook all
the processes and

made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the
funds deposited at the London based security consultancy firm, Corporate
Securities Co.

Corporate Securities Co is a specialist private firm that accepts deposits
from high net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that handle
valuable products or

undertake transactions that need immediate access to cash. This small and
highly private organization is familiar especially to the highly placed
and well-connected

organizations. In line with Instructions, the money was deposited with
Corporate Securities Co. The deceased told me he wanted the money; there
in anticipation of his

arrival from Norway later that week.This was the last communication we
had, this transpired around 25th June 2003. In June last year, we got a
call from Corporate

Securities Co informing us that the activity of that particular portfolio.
This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact
that I managed the

private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the deposit at
Corporate Securities Co, and I could not understand why the deceased had
not come forward to

claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate the deceased. I
immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations
department of NRS Plc.

Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently our client
was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart
attack in Cannes,

South of France.

We were soon enough able to identify the body and cause of death was
confirmed. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible
surviving next of kin to

alert about the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. If
you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our
services usually

prefer anonymity, but also some levels of detachment from conventional
processes. In his bio-data form, he listed no next of kin. In the field of
private banking

opening an account with us means no one will know of its existence,
accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors use numbers and codes to
make the accounts

anonymous. This bank also gives the choice to depositors of having their
mail sent to them or held at the bank itself,ensuring that there are no
traces of the account

and as I said, rarely do they nominate next of kin.Private banking clients
apart from not nominating next of kin also usually in most cases leave
wills in our care, in

this case; the deceased died without a testament .In line with our
internal processes for account holders who have passed away, we instituted
our own Investigations in

good faith to determine who should have right to claim the estate. This
investigation has for the past months been unfruitful. We have scanned
every continent and used

our private investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the
problem. It is this investigation that resulted in my being furnished with
your details as a

possible relative of the deceased. My official capacity dictates that I am
the only party to supervise the investigation and the only party to
receive the results of

the investigation. What this means, you being the last batch of names we
have considered, is that our dear late fellow died with no known or
identifiable family

member. This leaves me as the only person with the full picture of what
the prevailing situation is in relation to the deposit and the late
beneficiary of the

deposit.According to practice, Corporate Securities Co will by the end of
this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to HSBC
Plc ,failing to

receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to
HSBC Plc. This will result in the money entering the HSBC Plc accounting
system and the

portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the private banking division.
This will not happen if I have my way. What I wish to relate t o you will
smack of unethical

practice but I want you to understand something. It is only an outsider to
the banking world who finds the internal politics of the banking world
aberrational.

The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for
those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios. You
should have begun by now

to put together the general direction of what I propose. I alone have the
deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I
instruct them to do so.

I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as HSBC Plc is
concerned, the transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent
the funds to corporate

securities, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just
customer services and due process. Corporate Securities Co has no single
idea of what the

history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to
release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is the
situation.This bank has

spent great amounts of money trying to track this mans family; they have
investigated for months and have found no family. The investigation has
come to an end. My

proposal; you share similar details to the late fellow; I am prepared to
place you in a position to instruct Corporate Securities Co to release the
deposit to you as

the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared
to share the money with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you
as the next of kin

and have them release the deposit to you.We share the proceeds 50/50.I
would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would
have drawn a straight

line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit.I assure you that I
could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply
inform the bank of

the final closing of the file relating to the deceased I will then
officially communicate with Corporate Securities Co and instruct them to
release the deposit to you.

With these two things: all is done. The alternative would be for us to
have Corporate Sec unities Co direct the funds to another bank with you as
account holder.

This way there will be no need for you to think of receiving the money
from Corporate Securities Co. We can fine-tune this based on our
interactions. I am aware of the

consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in this
project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be
vindictive and

destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you,delete this message and
forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not
approve of my

proposal.

You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out
of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a
criminal and what I

do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to
understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this
move. Such opportunities

only come ones' way once in a lifetime.I cannot let this chance pass me
by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These chances
won?t pass me by. I

ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me
know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family
man and this is an

opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for
this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. I have evaluated the
risks and the only

risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my
bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has
blessed you with a name

that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Let share
the blessing. If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me
through this same email

account. If you give me positive signals,I will initiate this process
towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via
official channels; I

will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you
contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I wouldn't?t you
contacting me through

my official email account.Contact me only through the numbers I will
provide for you and also through this email address. I do not want any
direct link between you and

me. My official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically
monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total
Quality Management Policy.

Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a
family man, I have a wife and children. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as

to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is
nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter
of gold. This is the

one truth I have learn t from my private banking clients. Do not betray my
confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting,
soon.Thank you so much for

your time.

I look forward to hearing from you soonest.
hall.trevor98@yahoo.com

I await your response.

Hall Trevor.

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