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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: adekunlewilliams@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:20:50 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Reply=20ASAP=2E?=

My compliments to you.

I am Adekunle Williams, A lawyer to the current embattled Togolese President
His Excellency Mr. Faure Eyadema, the son of the Togolese recently deceased
leader Dr. Gnassingbe Eyadema. If you have not been following the politics
in Africa, let me inform you that at the death of the former President and
father of Togo Dr. Gnassingbe Eyadema. The military and the legislative
house, in recognition, of their fallen leader's qualities decided to amend
the constitution to make the son Mr. Faure Eyadema succeeds his father.
In response, The international community has been rather very unnecessarily
agitated and have decided to flout the spirit of non intervention in domestic
affairs of nations.

On advice, he has decided to quit the stage temporarily until the elections
that would be coming up in three months from now. It is certain that he
would win the coming elections as the formidable political machinery put
in place by his father are all behind him. But, to get this working he needs
to get international partners that would act as political donors to his
Party as required by the electoral law, he is not allowed to finance his
political campaign from his own purse.

We therefore seek reputable partners acting as fronts through whom he can
make donations to his party. Note that the funds in question is $35m (Thirty
Five Million United States Dollars deposited in Three banks abroad, all
we require is to have part of this funds transferred to your account for
you to further transfer back as donation towards his election campaign.
Of course this would be for a fee that we would agree on before the transaction
commences.

Note that you would be obligated to enter into a notarized agreement as
soon as we have negotiated your fee before we can commence the transfer
of the funds. It is absolutely imperative that this business is kept strictly
confidential, from the details above, I need not explain why. Infact, a
lot of premium is placed on your discretion to be discreet, if at anytime
during the transfer of the funds we have course to suspect your confidentiality
status drops, we would have no choice but to discontinue further dealings
with you.

Please endavour to contact me as soon as you receive this letter via my
alternative email: adekunlewilliams@lawyerzone.com Further contact details
will be provided as soon as we are assured of your readiness, abilities
and dedication to this deal.

Yours Sincerely,

Williams Adekunle Esq.



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