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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: "HSBC Bank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hsbcbankberhadmalaysia@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:40:50 +0800
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

HSBC BANK BERHAD MALAYSIA
HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad (127776-V)
Head Office Personal Financial Services No. 2 Leboh Ampang
50100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
E-maail: hsbcbankberhad@gmail.com


Dear Beneficiary.

Your name & E-mail id appeared in our payment schedule list of beneficiaries that will receive their funds in this 2nd quarter payment of the year for poverty alleviation program World Bank Scam Victims compensations. Your E-mail i.d was mentioned by our security intelligent monitoring database as one of their victims of the operations as was noted down from the Microsoft, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to anyone or who so ever, for any reason what so ever, the secret service is already on trace of the criminals. You will receive your compensations payments either by Bank direct wire transfer to your destination local account or Online Banking System.

We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we hear from you. We wish to inform you that the board of trustees and management of HSBC BANK COMPENSATION TEAM has finalized and have being given an Immediate transfer approval order by the United States of America Treasury committee Board of Governors Federal Reserve Bank America, by following means of choice below for your own security reasons.

Now your new Payment, HSBC Bank Approval No; WB5685P, White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021. Your payment inheritance fund is Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ( USD$6.8Million) only.

I hope this is clear. Any action contrary to this instruction is at your own risk. Respond to this email with immediate effect and we shall give you further details on how your fund will be released.

Requested Details for onward verification.

FULL NAME...........................................
DATE OF BIRTH.......................................
POSTAL/ADDRESS....................................
GENDER......................................................
NATIONALITY.........................................
OCCUPATION..........................................
MOBILE TELEPHONE.................................
EMAIL ADDRESS......................................
PIN CODE NO.........................................
SCAN COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY...................

Yours sincerely.

Management.

Mr. Idris Musa
HSBC Bank Berhard Malaysia.
Transfer Unit Officer
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