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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: BENJAMIN OUSMANE <coulibalyousmane305@gmail.com>
Reply-To: koh_afambenjamin@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:03:11 +0000
Subject: I need your help and collaborations.

Dear Friend,
Greetings to you, please do not be upset in receiving this urgent
business proposal as you did not know me before, anyway, is about
confidential business transaction involving the sum of £ 3,200,000: 00
(Three Million Two Hundred Thousand Pounds)

I am Mr. Benjamin Ousmane, the branch manager customer value /audit
and account department here at HSBC London, I supervised all the
financial records of our customers and I have successfully configured
the account of one of our former customer who because of indictment
stopped coming to our bank for a long time , hopwever, he is one time
big politicians from Africa , it is assumed that he noticed that there
are numerous improprieties base on what is on circlation behind his
wealth then, he authomatically stopped updating his account for many
years, so later enquired about his welfare and discovered that he is
dead living no body behind to come because of lack of evidence to
allow the due process to scale through as it have been speculated in
the media that he he is involved in some money laundry and amassed of
public wealth when he is a public servant in his country.

So, I need your help to transfer this money into your bank account
since I have successfully perfected the plans, thus I seek your
attention / collaborations to retrieve this money out of our bank.

To collaborate with me , work as a teammate, you will take 40% of the
total, while 60% will be for me.

I look forward to see your declaration of interest  in this transaction.
Thank you

Your Sincerely
Mr. Benjamin Ousmane
The branch manager customer value /audit and account department HSBC
Brentwood Essex, London

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