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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: "Gary William" <kavita.k@dousefire.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 23:30:24 +0530
Subject: Re: Reply


My name is Gary William, Barclays Bank EU Head of Equities Research. I have decided to seek a
confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described here-under for our both
mutual benefit and hope you will keep it a top secret because of the nature of the transaction.
During the course of our bank yearly auditing, I discovered an unclaimed/abandoned fund, sum total
of $15.000,000.00 USD (Fifteen Million United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customers (Late Jean Seetohul),a citizen of Mauritius.

For 7 years now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim but
nobody has done that. I personally has been unsuccessful in locating any of the relatives and
nobody knows about this account. I sincerely seek your consent to present you as the next of kin /
beneficiary to late Jean Seetohul so that the proceeds of this account valued at {USD
$15,000,000.00} can be paid to you, which we will share in these percentages ratio, 50% to me and
50% to you.
Our Bank will pay this money to any Mauritius citizen that has the correct information of the
money, which I will give you all the information about the money.
All that I require from you is your sincere co-operation; trust and utmost confidentiality to
enable us conduct this transaction successfully. I assure you that this transaction will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in
your country and here in London once the fund is transferred to your bank account.Please note that
we have few days to carry out this deal. This is 100% pure deal. this is my email address
garywilliam050@gmail.com
Thanking you in anticipation for your prompt response.

Warm Regards,

Gary



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