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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: "Amanda Jane Kieu" <amanda.kieu@shengum-international.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:35:43 +0000
Subject: P/T Job Vacancy.


SHENGUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Koon Fook Center
Office 5
9 Knutsford Terrace Tst, 3rd Floor
Hong Kong
Registration number: 3699677
VAT registration number: 832 6732

My name is Amanda Jane Kieu, a representative from SHENGUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED with our head quarter in Hong Kong.

We recently expanded our sales to the United Kingdom/Europe because of the great innovation the company have gained across the world in the marketing of all sort of Clothing materials, Jewelleries & Electronic appliances. We are faced with serious difficulties when it comes to selling our products to Europe, in terms of payment as majority of our customers offer to make payment with bank cheque, which is very difficult for us to cash here in Hong Kong.

So we are presently working on setting up a branch in the United Kingdom/Europe for now and we are urgently in need of a representative in the United kingdom who will be working for us as a part time staff, someone who will be working from home without affecting his/her present job if they have any at hand now and we will be willing to pay 10% for every transaction.

We are looking for an individual in the United Kingdom/Europe who will be working for us and we are willing to pay 10% for each & every transaction, which wouldn’t affect your present state of work, someone who will receive cheque payments on our behalf, from our customers in UK/Europe. These payments are in form of a bank cheque and it will be made payable to your name, so all you need do is cash the cheque, deduct your percentage and wire the rest of the funds back to us through money transfer services. I would like to clarify to you that you will not be investing any of your personal funds in this venture; you are to receive payments which will be sent by our customers to you via express mail.

If you can assist us with this transaction, I would like you to get back to me.

Awaiting your response and thanks.

Sincerely,
Amanda Jane Kieu




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