joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Asareh Kofi" <iforck123@post.sk>
Reply-To: "Dr. Asareh Kofi" <asareh456@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 01:48:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Hello

I am Dr. Asare Kofi , a banker, personal accountant to a deceased customer from your country,who used to work as a contractor in Ghana before his death.

Here in after shall be referred to as my customer. On the 30th of April 2013, my customer, and their only son were involved in a fatal accident along Tema express Road. All occupants of the incident unfortunately lost there lives.

Since then I have made several inquiries here to locate any of my customer extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to search through with his name which motivated me to contact you, I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at US$6.5 million left behind by my customer in Escrow Called Account before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by our (bank) where this huge amount were deposited.

Our bank has issued a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated within the next twenty one official working days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last name, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Please, on receipt of your positive response, I shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.

I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for this claim. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

CALL ME FOR MORE DETAILS ON +233 23183 6136.

Best regards.

Dr. Asare Kofi
Tel: +233 23183 6136.
_____________________________________________________________________

Vsetky poplatky v cene len na http://dovolenka.sme.sk

Anti-fraud resources: