joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Deborah Hutton <cbrandusoiu@cciat.ro>
Reply-To: mrsdeborah246@proton.me
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 06:48:45 +0100
Subject: I'm Mrs Deborah Hutton

I'm Mrs Deborah Hutton. I am a dying woman who has decided to donate
what I have to you/church. I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed for
cancer for about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband,
who has left me everything he worked for.

I have been touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my
late husband to you for the good work of God, rather than allow my
relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.

Please pray that the good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God to
forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God. I will be
going in for an operation in less than a month and I decided to
WILL/donate the sum of £950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Great British Pounds) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to
help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of
the widows.

At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the
fact that my relatives are around me and my health status. I have
adjusted my WILL and my lawyer is aware I have changed my WILL. If you
are a Godly person, please contact my lawyer and he will arrange the
transfer of the funds from my account to your preferred account. I wish
you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and PLEASE
use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.

Pls. Contact my lawyer, Barrister Robert Hutchison Pennman, with all
these
specified email addresses-:

ROBERT HUTCHISON PANNMAN CHAMBERS
EMAIL: barrrobertpennman@mailfence.com
barrrobertpennman@mail.com.tr

Please ensure that you copy all your correspondence to the email address
above. Please tell him that I have WILLED (£950,000.00) to you. Good
luck in all your future Endeavour’s!

Thanks,

Mrs Deborah Hutton.
mrsdeborah246@proton.me
CC: BARRISTER ROBERT PANNMAN

Anti-fraud resources: