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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: "Mr. Piyush Gupta" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infopiyushg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:10:25 -0700
Subject: GUTEN MORGEN fREUND

Attention: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Piyush Gupta, I work with the DSB Bank of Hong Kong, i wish to place your name as the beneficiary to $27,500,000.00 due to the death of the depositor who died some years ago along with his family. If you are interesting to help me receive these funds, do and let me know that you will not betrayed me as these funds transferred to your account in your country from our correspondent bank.


However, i assure you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in your country and here in Hong Kong once the fund is transferred to your bank account.The funds I am referring to is right here in this bank floating in suspense account, therefore i solicit for your to be in collaboration with me to have this done, it will be transferred into an account you will provide any where in the world. I will need you to provide the cooperation following information urgently to enable the attorney start the processing of the all the relevant legal documents for the fund remittance.


1) Name:
2) Address:
3) Contry:
4) Age:
5) Sex:
6) Occupation Status:
7) Tel:
8) Scanned copy of your international passport or your driving liences id card for my lawyer to used to process these of

Waiting for your reply soon, as to enable me send you more details of these funds and the legal documents covering it.
Here is my Email: infopiyushg@gmail.com


Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Piyush Gupta,
DSB Bank of Hong Kong.


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