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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: paulobi2009@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:21:45 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=20WILL=20BE=20GLAD=20TO=20HEAR=20FROM=20YOU?=

MR.PAUL OBI
20 Louis BOTHA AVENUE,
YOVILE, SOUTHAFRICA.
Fax-871-762-604-486.
ATTN:CEO,

In order to transfer out (US$ 90million) Ninety million United States Dollars)
from a prime Bank. I have picked-up the trust and courage to contat you
as a reliable and honest person who will be capable for this important business
transaction believing that you will never let me down either now or in the
future. My name is MR.PAUL OBI, the chief Auditor Officer in a prime bank
here in South Africa.There is an account opened in this bank in 1980 and
since 1990 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through
some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this
money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this
account is Mr. Fernando RACHEL, a foreigner, he was a
miner at Kruger gold company, a geologist by profession, and he died since
1990. No other person knows about this
account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that this company
does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is (US$90
million) Ninety million United States Dollars. I want to first transfer
(US$45M) Forty Five million united states Dollars from this money into a
safe foreigners account abroad before the rest. I am contacting you
based on the fact that you are a foreigner because this money can only be
approved for payment to a
foreigner, more so it can not be approved by any local bank here, as this
money is in US Dollars hence the former owner of this account is a foreigner
too. I know that this proposal will come to you as a surprise as we don't
know ourselves before, however I based my move on trust and God directive
and we will still have to meet possibly, sign some agreement before the
final transfer of the fund into any of your chosen designated bank account.
Please treat with utmost confidentiality.

Expecting your urgent response.
Best Regards
MR PAUL OBI.
REPLY ME BACK WITH THIS MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS:plo250@yahoo.fr
















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