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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: bbmorgan@tiscali.it
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:20:16 +0100
Subject: proposal

REPLY ONLY TO: bbmorgan@echina.com

Attn: SIR
I am Barrister morgan udoma ESQ a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney.
to Mr. Mark SEYMOUR a national of your country, who use to work with shell
Development Company in Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as my
client.Who died along with his wife in the December 25th, 2003 Air Crash
in Benin Republic Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy
to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted
you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property
left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable
by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, Citibank
of Nigeria Lagos where the deceased had an account valued at about $18.7million
United States dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin
or have the account confiscated within the next fourteen official working
days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over
4 months now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this
account valued at $10million dollars can be paid to you and then you and
me can share the money 60% to me and 40% to you I have all necessary legal
documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law, and I would like you to treat
this as most urgent so that we will receive this money at this second quarter
of the Year.
Please get in touch with me Immediately on my private email above or via
my alternative e-mail address "below"with your telephone and fax number.

PLEASE VIEW THE WEBSITEhttp:// www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html> for
more details.
Thanks for your co-orperations.
Best regards,
Barr. morgan udoma .


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