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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Mosun Mourice <mmourtt@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mmourie@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:16:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mmourtt@yahoo.com



- Dear Sir,I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of UBA Bank . I am writing you following the impressive information about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in your country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this businees opportunity.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 20 M US Dollars (Twenty Millon US Dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in an auto crash that almost took the whole life of the pasengeres on board.Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclamed after three years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner. We agree that 40 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 50 % would be for ;me and my colleagues. Thereafter I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter,Trusting to hear from you immediately.Yours Faithfully,Dr,Mourice Mosun UBA BANK NIGERIA.(Bill and exchange manager)+234-8033-85826 N.B.My intention of writing you through email is because I believe it is very confidential.


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