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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: david <dr_davidjames@totalmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:22:26 -0600
Subject: ASSISTANCE NEEDED



Goodday My Good Friend,

My name is Dr.David James an attorney and personal lawyer to late Engr. Mark Stephen estate. Engr. Mark Stephen was a member of board of directors of some blue chip companies . He retired in 1992 and started oil lifting business till his death on the 4th of May 2002 in a plane crash in which his wife and two children died. They have since been buried. May thier Soul rest in peace!

Please see the following website for information about the plane crash wereover100 people died:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/01/30/nigeria.crash/
http://www.usafricaonline.com/ngrplane.crash

Engr. Mark untill his death made some good money for himself and family while in active service and in his business since he has several oil blocks both in Angola and Congo.

The reason for my contacting you is that there was a deposit he has in a security company in Holland amounting to US$12.3Million. This deposit has been with the Security company for close to two years after the man's death. THe company has mandated me to provide the next-of-kin to the man within two weeks or else the money will be
confiscated.

To this effect, I have made several efforts to locate any relative of the man but have failed to make any meaningful
progress.The Security company requirement in this kind of situation is that once somebody comes forward as the next of kin of a late customer with necessary prove, the money will be processed and wired to that person. But if nobody show up,after three years the money will be deposited into unclaimed funds account Now that the deadline given is at hand, I would like you to assist me in recovering this money from the security company as the man's next-of-kin. There will be all necessary documentation to see to this.

The procedure for approval is simple once you indicate your interest, an affidavit of claim will be made and a letter of admnistration obtained from the probate Registry which will
authorise the release of the funds to you. This documents and some others will be notarised and forwarded to the Security company for vetting. After that, the document will be forwarded to the office of the Managing Director for approvals.

So you can see that there is no risk in this transaction. Everything will be properly arranged.

As you can see time is of great essence as the Security company has given me deadline.Contact me through my private email address dr_davidjames2002@lawyer.com so that I will give you more information. But were you are not capable to do this transaction, please let me know so that I can look for another person that will be capable.

I expect to hear from you immediately.

Regards,

Dr.David James.



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