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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: email1@wedumail.com
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:59:52 +0000
Subject: FOR YOUR ATTENTION !!!!!


From: Mr. Hanny Johnson
First National Bank of South Africa Pretoria South Africa .
Direct Line: 0027-715-225-084
Direct Fax No: 0027-865-191-025
Email:hanny_jo@yahoo.co.uk

My name is Mr. Hanny Johnson , the Manager, Credit and Foreign Bills of FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB). I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with account number 6200-14-255-114 whose name is Chung Timothy, (Mr.), an American citizen who died in a plane crash [Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers onboard on August 6, 1997. And for your perusal you can view this website Ref:

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list

Before the death of Mr. Chung Timothy he deposited the sum US$15.5M (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), which has been with our bank for past 10 years. Till date no body has come up for the fund as next of kin. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin and the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than Eleven years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed fund after this period.

In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal when I was making a research on a foreigner I will use in this great opportunity. For your assistance I am willing to give you 30% of the total amount, upon the receipt of your response, e-mail the letter of application which you will type sign and send back to our Bank to enable us start the processing of this claim.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear.
When you receive this mail, kindly call me on my direct telephone number ( 0027-715-225-084 ) or reply by email to my personal address (hanny_jo@yahoo.co.uk)
immediately. Please do include your full given names as they are in your identity document and your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication as time is of essence in this regard
NOTE THAT WE SHALL BE FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF THIS TRANSFER (I. E THIS TRANSACTION NEEDS OUR FINANCIAL COMMITMENT) TO ENSURE A SMOOTH TRANSFER OF THE FUND.

Thank you and have a blessed day, warm regards.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Hanny Johnson
First National Bank of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
Direct Line 0027-715-225-084
Direct Fax No: 0027-865-191-025
Email: hanny_jo@yahoo.co.uk




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