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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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Fraud email example:

From: "sichuan tonghui" <sichuan_tonghui@msn.com>
Reply-To: sichuan_tonghui@yahoo.co.in
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:22:47 +0000
Subject: From the Director:SICHUAN TONGHUI INDUSTRIES

FROM THE DESK OF
MR. SICHUAN TONGHUI
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF
HUAMAO ART AND CRAFTS INC.
PUDONG NEW DISTRICT,
SHANGHAI, PR CHINA.

Dear Sir/Madam,
Goodday to you, My name is Mr.Sichuan Tonghui, managinig director of HUAMAO
ARTS AND CRAFTS Import./Export. Corp.(HMARTS) we are a group of business
men who deal on Art and Craft and export into the Canada/America and
Europe.

We need representative in your country to help facilitate payment of
our money from clients that we have shiped our products to in other
countries. We have no agents in America,Canada and Europe and this affect
our business so much, they owe us alot of money. language barrier is also
affecting us, we cant get good information from client because we cant
speak english very good

China is a big country but have bad government and many law. We use to
have many client in Canada and America but they run because they see we
cannot collect money from them because of sanction by government. some
are ready to pay but other become bad debt(money). we have lost alot of
money like this but have no choice. We have lost up to $8 millions that
we cannot collect. Our company executives are afraid to travel because
of government law on travel and exchange of information and jail.
We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium
of getting to our customers in the Canada/America and Europe as well as
making payments through you to us. Please if you are interested in
transacting business with us we will be very glad. Please contact us via
this e-mail address: sichuan_tonghui@yahoo.co.in for more information.
Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to
negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your services as our
representative in Canada/America and Europe Please if you are interested
forward
to us your phone number/fax and your full contact addresse to me.
Thanks In advance
Mr. Sichuan Tonghui
Managing Director


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