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: Hanna Hudson <hannahudson241@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 22:53:59 -1200
Subject: Gooday

Gooday my beloved,

It's my pleasure to contact you to seek for your urgent assistance in
this humanitarian social investment project to be establish in your country
for the mutual benefit of the orphans and the less privileged ones, haven't
known each other or meet before, I know that everything is controlled by
God as there is nothing impossible to him. I believe that you and I can
cooperate together in the service of the Lord, please open your heart to
assist me in carrying out this benevolently project in your
country/position.I am Mrs.Hudson Hanna,a dying widow hospitalized
undergoing treatment for brain tumor disease, I believe that you will not
expose or betray this trust and confidence that I am about to entrust on
you for the mutual benefit of the orphans and the less privileged ones. My
late husband made a substantial deposit with the Bank which I have decided
to hand over and entrust the sum of ($ 11,500,000.00 Dollars) in the
account under your custody for you to invest it into any social charitable
project in your location or your country. Based on my present health status
I am permanently indisposed to handle finances or any financial related
project.

This is the reason why I decided to contact you for your support and
help to stand as my rightful beneficiary and claim the money for
humanitarian purposes for the mutual benefits of the less privileged ones.
Because If the money remains unclaimed with the bank after my death, those
greedy bank executives will place the money as an unclaimed Fund and share
it for their selfish and worthless ventures. However I need your sincerity
and ability to carry out this transaction and fulfill my final wish in
implementing the charitable investment project in your country as it
requires absolute trust and devotion without any failure. Meanwhile It will
be my pleasure to compensate you with part of the total money as my
Investment manager/partner for your effort in handling the transaction,
while the remaining amount shall be invested into any charity project of
your choice there in your country.

Please I'm waiting for your prompt response if only you are interested. I
will send you further details and the bank contact details where the fund
has been deposited for you to contact the Bank for immediate release and
transfer of the fund into your bank account as my rightful beneficiary.
May god bless you and your family.
Best Regards.
Mrs,Hudson Hanna.
Written from the Hospital.

Anti-fraud resources: