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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: kbello2005@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 05:32:45 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?kindly=20send=20your=20response/assistance=20needed?=

Attention kindly send your response
only to : kbello2005@pathfinder.gr.
Dear Grande.


I am Kumar Bello an administrative officer of a financial firm, I am writing
this letter to
solicit for support and assistance from you to carry out a business of mutual
benefit
andconcern.

I know you would be wondering why I am writing you with a request such as
these but I only urge
you to read on.Pending in our vault is a numbered time fixed deposit of
belonging to
Mr.Flody Grande,of Triple G limited. Valued presently at $36.Million dollars,
Mr. Floyd
Grande,lost his life in an robbery attack in his personal home, which left
the entire
community in a state of shock and 11 people dead.

I am sorry if this news is too traumatic for you but I was only trying to
paint the picture to
you. His time deposit has been re-run twice and inline with the contractual
agreement
entered with him, we cannot re-run it again, efforts has since been exhaustively
made to
source out his kin but to no avail.

Information reached me that the bank wants to return the account as dormant
thereby paving
way for the fund to be remitted into the governments confine for arms purchase,
at this
juncture I had to stampede that
possibility by writing to debunk all efforts for the government to seize
the funds,
hence I am asking you to stand in as the next of Kin to Mr. Floyd Grande,
and the funds shall be
transmitted to you, we shall share the funds in the ratio of 50-40, while
10% will be for
unprecedented expenses incurred by both parties in the course of this transfer.

If you assist in this transaction kindly send your response via email to
:
kbello2005@pathfinder.gr.
and also provide me with your phone number for easy communication,I anticipate
having a
wonderful working relationship with you.

Respectfully,

Kumar Bello.







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