joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: uknluk09@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:10:35 +0800
Subject: <<<Your Active E-mail made you a Beneficiary>>>

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the seven-member committee
to fulfill Chairman Chung Mong-koo's promise to donate One trillion won (US
$1.1 billion) to charity, contingent to a suspension early this month of his
three-year prison sentence for embezzlement and breach of trust. The ruling
meant that the 69-year-old chairman will not be thrown back into jail as long
as he remains clean during the next five years. In suspending the prison
sentence, the Seoul High Court ordered Chung to fulfill the pledge of
donations. Chung, want this money used for the protection of the environment
and to build art and cultural facilities.

As one of the final recipients of this Cash Grant/Donation for your own
personal, education and business development. The Hyundai Company is the
world's largest shipbuilder and 6th largest automaker and owns Hyundai Group,
the parent company for all Hyundai Motor. The company has decided to randomly
select email addresses that would benefit from this donation. Based on the
random selection exercise from internet service providers(ISP) and millions
of Super market cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among the lucky
recipients to receive the award sum of US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million United
States Dollars) as charity donations/aid from Hyundai Group.

You are required to expeditiously Contact the head of committee (HOC) below
for qualification documentation and processing of your claims, from Monday
through Sunday. On contact with head of committee (HOC), You'll be given your
payment pin number which you will use in collecting the funds. Please
endeavor to quote your pin number QN(HM-145-5611) in all discussions.
***********************************
Head of committee: Mr. Imran Khand
Email: HM-145-5611@manager.in.th
***********************************
On behalf of the seven-member committee kindly accept our warmest
congratulations

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Teresa X. Zheng
(Committee Secretary)

Anti-fraud resources: