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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <ireneamyrozian@inbox.lv>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:22:48 -0600
Subject: Greetings to you

Greetings to you

My name is Barrister Ms Irene Amy Rozian, A solicitor and an Advocate of the supreme court of

Malaysia; I worked as a personal Attorney to late Mr. Seng Wong, an expatriate, who was a

consultant with PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD (PETRONAS) Malaysia. He died on April 21st, 2009. Since

then I have made several inquiries as to locate any of his extended relatives, but all proved

abortive.

After several unsuccessful attempts, hence I decided to contact you. I am contacting you to assist

in retrieving the money valued at (US$15.5M) that was left behind by my client (Mr. Seng Wong,)

with the CIMB BANK BERHAD, Malaysia before it declared unserviceable account and be confiscated by

the bank. Consequently, the bank issued a notice to provide any member of late Seng Wong family or

relatives within 10 days or the account will be closed.

I hereby seek your consent to act as relative to late Seng Wong and claim the money US$15.5M from

the bank. I will provide the necessary information’s to be used in convincing the bank that you

relate to late Seng Wong. Whoever I present to the bank will claim the money, since I am his

personal Counsel before he dies; the bank knows me, because I represent him in all his banking

dealings with the bank.

When you claim the money, we share it 50% / 50%. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable

us succeed without any hitch. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement

that will protect us from any breach of the law.

I wait for your urgent reply

Sincerely,
Barrister Ms Irene Amy Rozian (Esq.)

Please treat with urgent assistance

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