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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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Fraud email example:

From: "OKOOFIA NAUMU" <okoofia2@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 00:20:19 -0700
Subject: TRUST WORTHY PERSON NEEDED.

ATTENTION :

Sir,

My name is Barrister Okoofia Naumu, 41 years Ghanaian
married with Five Children. I work as an administration
Secretary / Attorney with West African Clearing House
Accra Ghana. I joined the services of this company
in 1991.

I got your information
from our Chamber
of Commerce here and after due consultation, I decided
to contact you
believing that by the grace of God that you will be my
partner in this
business.

I have worked with this company for nine years, within
this period of
time I watched with meticulous precision on how
African Head of State
and government functionaries have been moving huge
sums of money (Dollars,Pound Sterling,
French Franc, Cash) to their foreign partners.

They bring in these consignment of money cash and
secretly declare the
content as jewelleries, Gold, Precious Stones, Family
Treasure, Documents,
etc. Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Fodey Sankoy of Sierra
Leone, Felix Houphet
Buigny of Ivory Coast, Konnan Bdie of Ivory Coast,
etc.

These people have consignments deposited with West
African Clearing House
and their foreign partners, Relatives and next of kins
are claiming most
of these consignment and a lot more are laying here
unclaimed for as
much as 7 years, as no available information to
anybody except the depositors,
and most of them were dead.

Since the inception of the year 2003, West African
Clearing House Management
changed the procedure of claiming of consignments. As
soon as you are
able to produce all the secret information as
contained in the secret
file of the company as regard the consignment, it will
be released to
you upon demand.

From our records, more than 10 consignment belonging
to these people
has been claimed in the past six months and this is
why I am seeking
for your co-operation and assistance.

Mr. Francis Carden is a Zimbabwean, and he work with
one of the top ministers
of President Robert Mugabe who was in charge of the
campaigning for re-electing
Mr. Mugabe into office in their last election. He
deposited this consignment
in 1999 after absconded with the money twenty two million, five hundred thousand us Dollars ( $22.5m) us Dollars.
Unfortunately, Mr. Francis Carden died in Kayan
aircraft that kill all
on board in 1999. Since his death, no one knows about
this transaction
with this company (West African Clearing House) except
I who acted as
his attorney when he deposited the consignment. I
have finished every
arrangement for you to come and claim the consignment
as the next of
Kin of Mr. Francis Carden.

The procedure is very simple:- Apply officially to the
director of operation
West African Clearing House, Accra – Ghana, Mr. Joseph
Boateng,( which
i will later give you their full information) for the
release of consignment
No. Z101. They will demand for some documents and the
security code of
the consignment, you will call on me to reveal you
with every detailed
information as regard the consignment. As soon as
they have confirm
it , the company will invite you to come and carry the money immidately.

Please don't let any body know that I am involved in this deal
except the Lawyer
who will write an agreement for us, I will suggest
upon conclusion, we
share it on the Ratio of 50%-50% more also you will
make an arrangement
on investments that I will invest my money in your
country. I assure
you that this business is very very secured and risk
free. You can e-mail me through my alternative email address
okoofia1@yahoo.co.uk

Please, if you are interested on this proposals,
kindly let me know.


Thanks

Barrister Okoofia Naumu.




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