419 scam: "John Peters" <wdamb@bex.net> Greetings To You,

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "John Peters" <wdamb@bex.net>
Reply-To: johnpeters444@citromail.hu
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:35:28 -0800
Subject: Greetings To You,

Greetings To You,

Being an accredited financial consultant to the HSBC I have been given a privileged information by the HSBC New York through Mr Wyatt crowell(Senior Executive Vice President,Head of Commercial Banking).That information is that one of their wealthy bank customers who is currently bedridden in a US hospital wants to give out her wealth to 5 lucky recipients who must use half of such donation for charity.

The amount of donation to each of the 5 recipients will be US$5Million each.HSBC has informed me that any of the recipients will have to take care of the legal process to coordinate the release of the US$5M to the lucky beneficiary. I am contacting you to find out if you can pay my consultation/legal fees.If you can handle it then there is a need for HSBC to contact you immediately for commencement of the process of releasing the donated funds to you.

For the bank to contact you,urgently provide your Full names and address including your occupation and age.Depending on your response I will send my ID to you in my next message.Finally,note that all processes will be very transparent and legal as you will see in all the documents.With due respect to you,please do not respond to this message if you feel you can not handle the processing of this free will donation.

Regards,

John Peters.

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