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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: EMMANUEL BRIGGS <ebribarclaysbank@aim.com>
Reply-To: ebriggs0147@qatar.io
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 12:34:20 -0700
Subject: LATE MR ABDOU ELZANATY INHERITANCE FUNDS



SUBJECT: SEEKING PARTNERSHIP FOR INHERITANCE FUND OF FOUR MILLION THREE HUNDRED
THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUND STERLING.

Dearest Friend,
My name is Emmanuel Briggs, I am a staff of BARCLAYS BANK in LONDON-UNITED
KINGDOM. I work in the operations dept where I serve as account officer to
numerous customers.I am contacting you of a business transfer,of a huge sum of
money from a deceased account the amount of GBP£4.3Million(Four Million Three
Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling).Though I know that a transaction
of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring
you that every documents / legal paper work that will state you the original
next of kin and bring about the success of this transaction would be provided,
and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction.The deceased person who died Mr Abdou Elzanaty died
in a plane crash along with his wife and two children in an Egyptian airline
with other passengers on board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with
the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his death from the BBC
WORLD NEWS published Website below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

The board of directors of BARCLAYS BANK,mandated me as the account officer to
the decease to look for any known relation of Mr. Abdou Elzanaty,since after his
death.However all my efforts traces was abortive.The circumstances surrounding
the death of the depositor with no known nominated successor has made it
difficult to locate anyone who is directly related to the deceased.The strategy
is to use my position as his account officer to present you as a next of Kin and
beneficiary of the time deposit for capitalization to your account and share
this money between ourselves and also donate 10% to HAITI,Charity and the
tsunami victims If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to
contact me immediately via this my most confidential
email(briggsbarclays@qatar.io).Above all,please handle this deal with maturity
and absolute confidentiality if you found it worthy to be benefited reply me but
if not, notify me on time and better still keep it top secret due to the
nature.PLEASE REPLY WITH YOUR FULL NAMES,ADDRESS,DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER AND
SCAN COPY OF YOUR RECENT PICTURE.

Thanks and God bless you for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours truly,
Emmanuel Briggs


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