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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: "Mr. Li Hung" <admin@footstepstofertility.com>
Reply-To: lianghung3@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:01:26 -0800
Subject: business proposal

Hello Dear recipient,



My apologies for contacting you unexpectedly. I am a Personal Asset Manager with a branch of Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong, a member of the HSBC Group, and one of the world’s largest investment banking and financial services organisation.



I want to respectfully seek your sincere consent in this profitable proposal that I am about to briefly explain to you for security purpose and my position at the bank, I will give you full details of the transaction when I have heard back from you through my email address below, indicating your willingness to assist me, for the benefit of both of us.



In early 2015, approximately 9 years ago, an international Expatriate Oil consultant/contractor with a Chinese mineral cooperation, invested a large sum of over $5 Million United States Dollars (USD) managed by my branch, and the bank have not heard from him or any of his relatives since then.



Further information in March 2022, the bank discovered through his contact employer that he was involved in a fatal accident in summer of 2015 and died intestate in Thailand with his wife, all paper works in my bank revealed that he did not declare any next of kin nor relatives aside from his wife who also died in the same accident. This means that no one will ever come for this money and the laws demands that the estate be returned to the state by default after (9) nine years of death if no claim was made, hence why I am proposing to make you the ‘sole beneficiary’ of the funds, as the only surviving relative of the deceased and this will be done successfully using Intestate succession laws.

Hope to hear from you soon.
Best regard
Li Hung

My PERSONAL E-mail, liang_1hung@hotmail.com

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