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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: "JAMES TATUM" <jamestatum07@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jamestatum0802@jmail.co.za
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:06:37 +0000
Subject: MY SINCERE REQUEST !!!

MY SINCERE REQUEST !!!

MR.JAMES TATUM,

DIRECTOR/CEO :CUMBERLAND VALLEY NATIONAL BANK,

LONDON UNITED KINDOM

TELEPHONE NUMBER: +447031842207

FAX NUMBER : + 447005806972

PLEASE SEND ALL YOUR REPLY STRICTLY ON MY FAX NUMBER : +447005806972

MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL: jamestatum1000@jmail.co.za

Dear Sir/Madam

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone
through your remarkable profile on the internet.Though, this medium
(Internet)has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because
it still remains the fastest,surest and most secured medium of communication
.However,this correspondence is unofficial and private,and it should be
treated as such. I also guarantee you that this deal is hitch free from all
what you may think of.I am MR.JAMES TATUM, DIRECTOR/CEO CUMBERLAND VALLEY
NATIONAL BANK LONDON. I am contacting you based on Trust and Confidentiality
that will be attached to this deal.

The Management and the Legal department of our BANK (CUMBERLAND VALLEY
NATIONAL BANK LONDON) in a recent meeting Last Week,Recommended that the
account of SUSAN LEVY, 53, from Cuffley, Hertfordshire, who was one of my
branch depositor, should be declared Dormant,confisticated and the
depositor's fund sent to the Bank Treasury according to CUMBERLAND VALLEY
NATIONAL Banking and financial law. She died in Bomb Blast in London,
Terrorist Attacks on July 7TH 2005.Incident that befall the UNITED
KINGDOM,the bank is still unrelenting in it's bid to contact any of the
relatives to claim
This money,you can confirm through this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4668245.stm

She is an account holder in my branch, She owns a dollar account with the
sum of US$38.6M (Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only) deposited in a numbered account with the account.In fact it
happened that since her death, the next of kin of the dollar account
holder(the brother) or whom ever that is related to her has not show up for
the claim. This is where I am interested on and his is where I want you to
come in. I want you to come in as the relation of the deceased,I will give
you the contact of the attorney, you will have to write to him Telling him
you are a relation to the deceased and that you have found out that SUSAN
LEVY has account with CUMBERLAND VALLEY NATIONAL BANK LONDON. which you
wants to lay claims through his legal authority.He is going to be happy to
assist you. I will be the one to provide the vital documents for the claims
of the money and then advise you exactly how we should handle it.Please
include your telephone/fax number/ Home Address when replying this mail and
I will give you more information as soon as you indicate your willingness
to assist in this transaction. We will use our positions to get all
internal documentations to back up the claims .The whole Procedures will
last only 7 working days to get the fund retrieved successfully Without
trace even in future.Please need the following:

1.YOUR FULL NAME

2.PHONE AND FAX NUMBER

3.HOME ADDRESS

4.COMAPNY NAME AND ADDRESS.

After successful conclussion of this transaction, we shall share the
money 60-40.

Yours truly,

MR.JAMES TATUM
jamestatum1000@jmail.co.za


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