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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: Thomas YERO <info@winklersrl.com.ar>
Reply-To: thomyero@ok.de
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 14:44:43 GMT
Subject: Your Partnership

Dearest Friend,

I am Mr. Thomas YERO, from Republic of Burkina Faso. I want to seek your assistance after my discovery during auditing in my bank as I'm the manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of BANQUE ATLANTUE BURKINA FASO, (B.A B).

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $17.300.000 million in an account that belonged to one of our foreign customer (late). Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no response.

After some months, we sent a reminder and finally discovered from his contract employers, Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina (SONABEL)Burkina Faso that our customer died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a will and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that the deceased person did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head of my department to make this business proposal to you because he shares the same last name as yours and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement, and share it equally 50/50 after the transfer is made to your country/account since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.

We will conclude this operation within 21 banking days based on the amount of co-operation you will contribute.

Thank you for your understanding as I await your urgent response. I want you to assure me your capability of handling this transaction with trust by giving me the following information details:

(1)NAME: ..............
(2)AGE: ................
(3)SEX: .....................
(4)PHONE NUMBER: .................
(5)OCCUPATION : .....................
(6)YOUR COUNTRY: .....................

Thanks and waiting for your urgent response

Best Regards
Mr. Thomas YERO


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