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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 SIU CHING <franklawfirm10@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.ching14@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 02:38:46 +0300
Subject: Dear Beloved


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’m 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
TRIODOS BANK. We got in touch with a specialist in TRIODOS BANK; agreement
was reached to receive this money for a fee and the cash was made available.

However the TRIODOS 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 an accident in 2014 and he died.

For more information please contact me on my private email below

I await to read from you
My Regards
Mr. Ching

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