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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: <cardservice.sg@bankofchina.com>
Reply-To: <mstw101@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 07:58:39 +0000
Subject: INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP FROM BANK OF CHINA

Hello my friend,

Thank you for this forum of communication, I must confess that after a careful thought and study of your profile, I felt that it will be right to share this secret with you which i hope wll be beneficial to us subject to your understanding and cooperation.

My name is Mike Wang, I am the Global investment potfolio manager with Bank of China Limited (BOC), London office , I handle all our investors Direct Capital Funds and specifically extract 3.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) annually on each of the investor's Marginal Capital Funds (MCF). I did this successfully over the years. I made £12.5 million (Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand British pounds sterling) from the investors EMCRP and hereby seek for collaboration that you stand as an investor to receive the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds (AIP) from UBS Marginal Capital Funds. All documents to back up this claim will be profiled with your data to have an easy access to the fund upon your acceptance.

Hence I will want you to assist me in receiving the funds as the beneficiary from Bank of China Limited,London branch, to be transferred to any of your designated Bank Account anywhere in the world.

Our sharing ratio will be 50/50 on the capital (£12.5M) and my own share will be handled under your supervision in any area of your expertise until i can be free to access the fund directly after retirement at the end of my service to the bank.

Thank you for your anticipated understanding and mutual cooperation. I await your positive response soon with your personal data for profiling the fund in your name as beneficiary. Please handle this information with maturity and confidentiality and trust my ability and position to perfect this deal with your honest cooperation.

In all friendship i will like to keep in touch regularly as we grow this partnership, and i will like to assure you that this has been carefully planned and will be given every legal backing that we need so you must not be afraid.


Mr. Mike Wang
此邮件信息只供收件人查询,所含任何评论、陈述或数据仅供收件人参考,不代表中国银行正式观点,若有改动,恕可能不另行通知。未经中国银行书面许可,请勿披露、复制、转载此邮件信息。任何第三方均不得查阅或使用此邮件信息。发件人及中国银行均不对因邮件可能引发的损失负责。 This message is intended only for use of the addresses and any comment, statement or data contained herein is for the reference of the receivers only and do not represent the official views of Bank of China. Notification may not be sent for any revising related. Please do not disclose, copy, or distribute this e-mail without Bank of China written permission. Any third party shall not read or use the content of this e-mail. The sender and Bank of China are not responsible for the loss caused possibly by e-mail.

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