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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: jennifer_pui@live.com
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:58:11 +0600
Subject: Waiting for update


Dear Respondent,

I am Mrs Jennifer Pui, Director of Operations of the Hang Seng Bank Plc
Ltd,Sai Wan Ho branch,Central­ Hong Kong.I have an obscured business
suggestion for you.Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, a cousin
of Saddam Hussein and the man thought to have ordered the 1988 chemical
attack on Iraqi Kurds,killing thousands, made a numbered fixed deposit
for 82 calendar months with a value of, (US$ 14m Five hundred thousand)
only in my branch.Ali Hassan was sentenced by the Iraqi Supreme Law
court on Sunday 24th of june 2007.

After further investigation it was also discovered that Ali Hassan Al-
Majid did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including
the Paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last
time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my
Bank. So, ($14,500,000.00) is still lying in my bank and no one will
ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to
the laws of my country at the expiration 6 years the funds will revert
to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim
the funds.

Ali Hassan is to die by Hanging.The funds are safe and unclaimed because
he left no information about any next of kin .I also have full access to
his account.I say we share in ratio of 65% for me and 35% for you.I need
a foriegner to help in this project because I cannot do this alone.My
duty in this project is to cover up and there shall never be any
traces,trust me.All I need is your cooperation and trust,all this could
be concluded in less than a week.

Regards,

Jennifer Pui.


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