419 scam: "MR SIU CHING" <mr.ching@mail.com> (no subject)

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- mr.chng14@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR SIU CHING" <mr.ching@mail.com>
Reply-To: mr.chng14@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 14:21:50 +0900 (JST)
Subject:

Lloyds Bank, Hong Kong: http://www.lloydsbank.com.hk/
8th Floor, Man Yee Building
Suites 805-806
68 Des Voeux Road
Central,
Hong Kong

For your perusal!!!
I$B!G(Bm SIU CHING from (LLOYDS BANK, HONG KONG).

I am contacting you regards a deceased client with similar last name with
yours

I contacted you independently; so no one is informed of this
communication. In 2010, the subject matter/deceased client, an American
investor came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our
private banking division (Capital Investment Dep.). He informed us that he
had a financial portfolio of $11.3 million USD; he wanted us to invest on
his behalf. 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 over 13 million USD.

In mid 2011, he instructed that the principal sum ($11.3 M) be liquidated
because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payment in
Channel Islands. We got in touch with a specialist bank in Channel
Islands; agreement was reached to receive this money for a fee and the
cash was made available.

However the Channel Islands bank got in touch with us this year due to my
client's account being dormant for too long. When an account stays dormant
for too long the account holder is contacted to re-activate his/her
account.
On further enquirers with Mr.Stephen Glen who works with United States of
America database directory, we found out that the American investor was
involved in a boat accident in 2014 and he died.

For information please contact me on my private email below
Mr.chng14@yahoo.com

Mr. Ching

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