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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: chike_ugo200@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:03:06 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?hello=20=20=20en?=

ATTN:Joachim

Dearest Friend

I am DR.CHIKE UGO. a Solicitor at law.I am the Personal Attorney to Mr Albert
en, a national of your country,who use to work with shell development company
in Nigeria.On the 2nd of may 1999, my client (Albert en) with his wife And
their three children were involved in a car accident along Saga mu Express
Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since
then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet,
to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence Contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money that belong to
my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank
where this huge deposits were lodged Particularly, the Bank where the deceased
had an account valued at about $40 million dollars has issued me a notice
to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next
ten official working days. since i have been unsuccessfully in locating
the relatives for over 3 years now I seek your consent to present you as
the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same country and
bear the same last name ,so that the proceeds of this account valued at
$40 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the
money. 55% to me and 40% to you,while 5% should be for expenses or tax as
your government may require, I have the Certificate of deposit that can
be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation
to enable us see this deal through I guarantee that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of
the law.Please get in touch with me by my email to enable us discuss further.


please contact me only through this following email for
security reason (chike_ugo200@yahoo.com)

Best regards
DR.CHIKE UGO



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