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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: "Chio Hung" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <chiohung2@rediffmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:08:50 +0100
Subject: late client

Attention,

I am Barrister Chio Hung, the Legal Adviser and counsel to Late Irish woman, Bree O’Mara., she was a successfull writer and used to work in the United Kingdom. Thereafter, shall be referred as my late client. my client traveled on holiday to South Africa and to Holland for Holiday but unfortunately On 12 May 2010, my client died in Libyan air crash after delaying her flight to Britain due to volcanic ash chaos

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1278010/Libyan-plane-crash-Irish-author-Bree-OMara-dies-ash-cloud-delays-flight-UK.html#ixzz0wr9o62RN

She left a large deposit with a financial institute here in London United Kingdom, hence I decided to bring you in as a foreigner so that I can present you to make claims. The sum totalling Nine Million Great British Pounds (9M). I need your consent to present you as the next of kin to her estate being that you are a foreigner. I have documents that would confer you the legal right to make claim by drafting the change of beneficiary of the funds in your names, and also getting the courts here to stamp the affidavit.

I am particularly interested in securing this money from the Finance Company, because they have issued a notice instructing us to produce the beneficiary of this fund within two weeks or else the money will be Confiscated and credited to the treasury as per law here.

It is my utmost desire to execute the Will of my late client, hence i intend to give away part of the fund to charity and other parts we could discuss about profitable business venture to invest in.


I urgently request you to contact me immediately for further details bearing in mind that the financial institution has given us a date limit. I await your urgent response to my private Email: for us to proceed

Chio Hung
Attorney at Law


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