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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: mr.molarbeson <molarbeson@ymail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:53:22 -0700
Subject: I will be waiting for your responds

Dear Friend,
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise.I got your contact
address from DUBAI chamber of commerce while i was searching for
somebody that has similar name with our deceased customer.

I am the manager of bill and exchange Bank of DUBAI CITY ... (UAE) at Foreign
Remittance Department.There is a business I would want you to champion for
me.In my department we discovered an abbandoned sum of(US$31.500.000.00)
Thirty One Million Five Hundred Thousands US Dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in 11th September 2003 in a plane crash.

Unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin's died
along
side with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is
therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
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 I don want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.

I agreed that 40 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner,in the
respect of the provision of a foreign account,and 10% will be set aside for
the expenses incured during this business and 50% would be for
me.Thereafter,i will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated.

Therefore,to enable the transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must
first apply to the Bank as relation 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 and location where in the
fund will be remitted.

All modalities of this transaction have been carefully worked out and once
started will not take more than seven working days to complete the
transfer process with your full support.This transaction is 100% risk
free,it involve no any implication and no precaution thereafter.Upon receipt
of your reply,i will send you by fax or email the text of transfer
application form which you will fill and send to the Bank.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch
free,that you should not entertain any atom of fear as required arrangement has been made already for the succesful transfer of this fund.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hearing from you immediately.

Yours faithfully
molar beson.
email:molarbeson@ymail.com,
phone no:+971555838040.

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