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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: "KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA" <kimaeva@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kimaeva@k.ro
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:49:51 -0700
Subject: MS.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA

Dear sir/madam,

I am Ms. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA, a personal secretary to Mikhail Khodorkovsky
the richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies: Chairman
CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank
(A well reputable financial institution with its branches all over the world).
I seek your partnership to accommodate the sum US$423M for us.

My Boss got arrested for his involvement on politics in financing the leading
and opposing political parties (the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris
Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor Yavlinsky)
which posed treat to President Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president
before he was reelected On March 14, 2004. You can catch more of the story
on this

<" target=_newhttp://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html> <http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html>

The fund (US$423M) in question was approved by the Government of Russia
for payment of various YUKOS OIL contractors/suppliers to prevent them from
loosing the money they invested in the numerous contracts they executed
for the above firm. The Government had already concluded plans to frozen
all the accounts in my boss name (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) both corporate and
personal before I connived with the Accountant General of YUKOS OIL (who
is also my partner in this transaction) to raise a memo stating that YUKOS
OIL owe contractors the above amount which was finally approved for payment
after some deliberations. Actually, we have paid all our contractors both
local and foreign because they agitated for their payment when they had
that my boss was arrested.

YOUR ROLE:

I will present you / your company as one of the contractors we are owing
so that you can stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum or part
of the fund according to your financial strength or the strength of your
company. I will arrange for the documentation which the payee bank will
need to transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to relocate
to American continent and never to be connected to any of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded before as soon as possible.
You will be rewarded with 10% of the total sum for your partnership. Can
you be our partner on this transacton?

As soon as I get your willingness to assist us in this deal, I will give
you more details. Thank you very much .

NOTE: PLEASE YOU CAN REPLY TO THIS MAIL kimaeva@k.ro OR COPY TO IT..

Regards

MS.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA




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