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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: "tijani ali" <tijani_ali13@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tijaniali012@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:18:21 +0000
Subject: KEEP CONFIDENTIAL

                              (READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP CONFIDENTIAL)
From:MR TIJANI ALI.
The Manager of Audit & Accountancy Dept.
African Development Bank {ADB}.
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

Dear Partner,

Good day and how are you doing with your family? Hope fine.

Please let this message do not be a surprise to you because i got your contact information and lay all the trust in you before i decided to disclose this confidential and successful transaction to you.

I am the MANAGER OF AUDIT & ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of TWENTY NINE MILLION,THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($29,300,000.00 ) for our present future success.This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family on through plane crash disaster about 3 years ago.Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2001-2004 in other to submit to the entire bank management  for an official
re-documentation.
Be obviously informed that it was stated in our BANKING POLICY and signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed  till the period of FOUR(4) years started counting from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund.
Besides, it is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA FASO to make the claim of the fund.So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.
Note that when the fund is transferred into your account, Thirty Five Percent (35%) will be for you in respect of all your assistance for the transfer of the fund into your account and provision of the bank account where the bank will remit the fund into,Fifty Five Percent (55%) will be for me as the rest Ten Percent(10%) will be shared to  Charity Organisations Centers, Motherless Babies Homes, and helpless people that surrounded us around the World.
If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and confidentiality, and accept not to cheat, betray or disappoint me after this when the fund is transferred into your account, reply for the
re-assurance with your telephone and fax numbers  necessary for effective communication. Your urgent is neede, so that i will let you know the steps and procedures to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.
I expect your urgent communication.

Yours sincerely,

MR TIJANI ALI.


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