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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: Dr Eric Edwards <anabellponclet@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dr.ericedwards@hotmail.fr
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:12:51 +0000
Subject: From Dr Eric Edwards

From Dr Eric Edwards
Email: dr.ericedwards@hotmail.fr


Compliments of the day, I am contacting you for a joint activity beneficial
to believe you will not betray me at the end. I'm Dr Eric Edwards,
Assistant Manager at Santander Bank Group plc, here in the UK . During the
last inspection of bank accounts and the services of our bank, I discovered
a non-resident bank account that was for a long time. After a discreet
investigation revealed that the owner of this account was an American Tim
Neidi, multi-millionaire property mogul, who died as Hurricane Katrina
washed away his house completely in August 2005. Until now, no one knows
about his bank account with Santander BankGroup, and my further
investigation revealed that the deceased immediate family also died in the
tragedy. This account is GBP? 21,500,000 (Twenty One Million, Five Hundred
Thousand British pounds) only.

I Contact you as a foreigner to arrange and transfer the money to your
account before the next audit bank accounts. If the management of the bank
is to find out that the account had been hidden behind these debts will be
frozen and the money will be returned to the bank treasury as unclaimed
public funds. That's why I want you to stand "Foreign Beneficiary." I need
your full co-operation to make this transaction work out perfectly, because
the management of the bank is ready to approve the immediate payment to
whoever would be presented as the beneficiary to the money. The ideal
strategy would be to implement the transfer on your behalf to the law, so
that no one will suspect their claims.

>From my position and influence here, the money will be re-profiled in favor
and move to a foreign bank account / s will be nominated, but the insurance
from you that the money will remain safe in the custody of my coming to
join you for the safety of my participation. The involvement in this
transaction, you will receive 40% of the total amount. Please note this
offer immediately and send me your information in the following way: your
full name, contact address and your direct phone number to begin
re-profiling fund to name a successor beneficiary. Feel free to call me for
further discussion and advice about what is expected of you. I will rely on
a sense of mystery and privacy, in order to avoid risk exposure, taking
into account the sensitivity and size of the project.

I am anxiously waiting for an urgent reply so we can get started.

Sincerely,

Dr Eric Edwards
Assistant Manager
Santander Bank Group plc.

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