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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: kennyudoka@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:36:11 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WE=20DO=20IT=20TOGETHER=2E?=

From: Mr KENNY UDOKA,
Chairman, Contract Award Committee,
Lagos-nigeria.
MY PRIVATE EMAIL:kenny_udoka@yahoo.com
Subject: PRIVATE.

My name is Mr KENNY UDOKA,and on behalf of my colleagues,I humbly soliciting
for your assistance to transfer the sum of Twenty Five million,five hundred
united state dollars (us$25.5million) into a foreign account.
We are members of the Contract Award Committee,for budget and planning of
the Ministry of Petroleum, this committee is principally concerned with
contract appraisals and approval of contracts in order to priorities as
regards capital project of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
With our positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of
twenty-five million,five hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$25.5M).
This amount was accumulated through under cleared windfall from sales of
crude oil during the U.S.A and IRAQI War.
What we need from you is to provide a safe account into which the fund will
be transferred since Government officials are not allowed by our laws to
operate foreign account.
It has be an agreed that the owner of the account will be compensated with
15% of the remitted funds, 5% is for any expenses encure by both party during
the process of transfer, while you keep 80%,for us, pending when we are
coming to takeit.
What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share
when this amount of US$25.5Million is transferred into your account.
If this proposal satisfies you, please E-mail us, your Telephone/Fax number,
so that we can advice you on the modalities of the transaction.
All modalities of the transfer have been worked out and once started will
not take more than 14 working days with the absolute support of all concerned.
This transaction is 100% safe,Please treat as urgent and very confidential.
God be with you as I look forward to your
reply.
Yours faithfully,
Mr KENNY UDOKA,
PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL:kenny_udoka@yahoo.com





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