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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: hansd12@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 04:37:20 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GREETINGS=20TO=20YOU=2E=2E=2E=2E?=


Dear friend,

Assalamu'Alaikum.

Greetings to you in the name of Allah the most holy one.

I am writing you this mail with a great hope that you will consider the
message contained in it and respond accordingly.Before I proceed I will
like to introduce myself:

I am Barr.Hans Dragsnes,a British Citizen and a praticing Lawyer for over
3 decades now. I am a muslim,married with four children.I am a personal
lawyer to a very Prominent and renown personality in Asia and the world
at large who is presently in detention.

I am contacting you for your hand of partnership in a business worth $58million
(fifty eight million US dollars).I got your contact through a personal search
on the internet. Though we have not met before,i am confident that we would
be able to establish the necessary trust needed for the execution of this
project.All that I require from you is your total cooperation. I decided
to with hold some informations in this mail for security reasons but I shall
furnish you is with the full details relevant to this transaction as soon
as we have been able to establish some trust.

A while ago,my client got me acquainted with his plans to establish an ultra
modern movie Production facilitywith state of the art technology for movie
Production.This he intended to do when he retires from public service.For
this purpose he set aside the sum of $58 million (fifty eight million US
dollars) out of the huge fortune he made from the movie industry while he
was still a movie producer and a movie actor in his country.He seperated
this funds and deposited them with two different security firms located
in two different locations in the world.On one of my visits to my client
in prison recently,my client confided in me to assist his family to withdraw
these funds and secure a secret way to relocate his family from his country
to a safe place where they can be free from political oppression and death
threats.

The political oppression on his family has grown so bad now that they now
live in fear and misery.All their known monetary and landed assets have
been confiscated and all their local as well as international bank account
frozen by the government.All these atrocities are being propagated by my
client's enemies in government who are jealous of his socio/political success.His
family have been placed under a travelling embargo which prevents them
from travellling out of their country.I was as well placed under a travelling
embargo but I had to secure a way to London where I am at this moment.I
did this to enable me have a conducive atmosphere to execute our plans
effectively and smoothly. As soon as we have been able to retrieve the funds
I shall go back to move my client's family to a safe country where they
can settle down in peace and as well invest the funds in a very viable
business venture.If you can guarantee our safety then we can consider your
country for this purpose.

We have the intention of retrieving one of the monies to enable us finalise
our plans.This is why i contacted you.I want you to be our partner who will
assist in the retrieval of the funds and securing it in a foreign account.I
shalll be available to give you the right directives on how to go about
the whole process.

Also be assured that this transaction does not involve any thing illegal
neither does it involve any form of risk .It is absolutely risk free.If
you give me your cooperation we shall have a Smooth and speedy conclusion
of this transaction.

we shall negotiate what shall be your commision in this deal.I just want
you to be rest assured that you will be handsomely rewarded at the end of
this project.

Please do reply me immediately if you are interested in assisting us in
this regard.

Please also note that this must be kept in absolute confidentiality for
security reasons even if you are not interested.

I await your response to this mail.

Pls Reply To My Confidential Email Via
(barrhansdrags@yahoo.co.uk)

Best regards,

Barr.Hans Dragsnes.

(London,Uk)





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