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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: "Dr.Hassan Aliou" <hassan_aliou@mmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hassan_aliou@mixmail.com
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:18:02 +0000
Subject: With Trust

From The Desk Of:
Dr Hassan Aliou
Dakar,Senegal.

ATTN:
Dear Sir,
TRANSFER OF ($26,000.000.00 USD} TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS.

I want to transfer ($26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty six million United States Dollars from a
Bank here in Dakar Senegal to oversea account. First, I must solicit your strictest
confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential.
I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction
of this great magnitude.I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount
into your safe account for unward investment.You can either provide us with an existing
account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an
empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till
the end for this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let
me down either now or in future.


I am the personal account officer to a great late INDUSTRIALIST who has an account
in one of the top banks here in Senegal. The account was opened in 1996 and he died
in the year 2000 without a written or oral WILL and since then nobody has operated on
this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently
it will be forfeited for nothing since the bank has been sold on Wed, 19 Mar 2003 to
another bank and the management of the bank is now ready to release the fund to any
foreigner who has the correct information of the account before fully handing over the
management to the new bank.The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other
person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary . My investigation through the National immigration department proved to
me as well that he was single as at the point of his entry into the Republic of senegal.


The amount in this account is USD$26 Million ( Twenty six Million United States
Dollars )only.As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for
investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of
the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account
which I will give you immediately, if you are interested to do this business with me.


There is no risk to this business. With my position and my personal contact with
the manager of the bank,the money can be transferred to any account you can
provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival
in your country for sharing.We will start the first transfer with Six million
[$6,000.000]. Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your
side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of $20 million
to your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money
can not be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any
foreigner who has the correct information of the account which I will provide
to you.So you should provide me with your correct account detail where you
will like the fund to be transferred or you can set up a new account for the
transfer even an empty account is ok.

At the conclussion of the transfer you will take 25% for your honest
committment and positive contributions to enhance that the transaction
succeeds, 5% for any expenses incurred in this business and the
remaining 70% for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong
assurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes into your
account I will then start to process the transfer of the fund to your account
without further delay.

Contact me urgently for further detail.

Thanks.
Yours Faithfully,
DR,Hassan Aliou
Tel:00221-5272782
Email:hassan_aliou@mixmail.com




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