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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • hsbcbnk@sify.com
  • h.sbc2000@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • h_sbc2000@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "HSBC BANK" <paulaa@mttb-mautourco.com>
Reply-To: h.sbc2000@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:38:32 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: YOUR INHERITANCE FUND!!

HSBC Bank PLC Moore Stephens Warwick Lane.
File Ref: HSBC/006/WT
Total No: Pages= cover +01
London EC4P 4BN HSBC Bank PLC
27/32 Poultry London EC2P 2BX
FSA, United Kingdom.
Date: 25:09:2008.

Chairman of London-based Banking Giant HSBC Holdings PLC.
RE- PART PAYMENT OF TWENTY ONE MILLION DOLLARS APPROVED.
This is meant for the payment from our ordering customer
Federal Government of Nigeria for the further Credit to
your bank account.

With all due respect our bank has obliged to credit
your account with instruction quoting reference payment
code which the Federal Government of Nigeria uses to
encode their consolidated crude oil reserved account
with us and this is as per agreement existing between
this bank, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and
the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Please get back to me for full details on this E-mail;
hsbcbnk@sify.com
h.sbc2000@hotmail.com
h_sbc2000@hotmail.com

Yours faithfully,
Sir. John Bond.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam