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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. Stuart Thomson Gulliver" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stuartthomsongulliver1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 10:46:00 -0800
Subject: Attn: Beneficiary From HSBC GROUP London

From: Mr. Stuart Gulliver
(Group Chief Executive Officer)
HSBC GROUP
8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ,
United Kingdom.

Attn: Beneficiary,


I am Mr. Stuart Gulliver, Group Chief Executive Officer HSBC GROUP London, I am writing you this letter because cool penny is better than millions of dollars. It is better for one to live and die a poor honest man than a rich dishonest one. I and the chief security officer (CSO) of HSBC GROUP have arranged with an insider in the computer room of this bank to bring out your part payment amounting five million United States dollars.


We did this because according to information gathered from the banks computer room, you have been waiting for a long time to receive your fund without success. We also found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements of the HSBC bank for the release of your fund, your problem is that of interest groups.


A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper work with you and that explains why you receives, emails and phone messages from different people. Also we found out that officials of various ministries have been extorting a lot of money from you in the pretext of helping you and we advise you now to stop and do away with those scammers.

I am willing to help you get your money but please for top security reasons do not tell anybody until you receive cash at your doorstep. the money is padded in two security-proof boxes weighing 25kg each, that is 50kg for the two boxes, we went to four different courier service to make arrangements on how to ship them by courier service. DHL, ems, FedEx and ISA, all said that they must open the boxes for inspection by the customs before shipment. This is something we want to avoid because the boxes were padded with machine.


We told the courier service that the boxes contains photographic and film materials and when opened will loose its efficacy. Today a friend of mine who is a good Christian i disclosed this with told me that there is a Government courier service we can use to send the package and it will be sealed under permit and privacy and cannot be inspected by any customs anywhere in the world. the name of the courier service is noble diplomatic security courier company (NDSCC) .I will meet with them as soon as i have your go ahead order.


Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if found out that we are using this way to help you, do not ever tell anybody about this until you have your cash with you. I want to help you because I will soon retire from my government and i want to come over to your country with my family so that you can assist me when i relocate with my family.

Furnish us with the below information,


(a) your full name

(b) your receiving address

(c) your private phone/cell numbers

God is with us as we wait for your reply.

Yours faithfully,


Mr. Stuart Thomson Gulliver

Group Chief Executive Officer

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