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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: barr_adamu@tiscali.it
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 03:23:23 +0100
Subject: Dear Nils Reply soon,

ADAMU CHAMBERS.
BARRISTER (DP)FRANCIS ADAMU (SAN)
LEGAL PRACTITIONER, SOLICITOR & ADVOCATE
PLOT 125, CHURCH ROAD,OFF AJOSE ADEOGUN STREET,
VICTORIA ISLAND ANNEX.

Dear Nils Reply soon,


I am personal attorney to (Engr Frank Nils ,) a national of your
country,who used to work with Osusu Construction Company Nig. ltd. here
in Nigeria
herein after, shall be referred to as my client. My client with his entire

Family (The wife and One Child) were involved in the bomb explosion in Lagos,

Nigeria, on January 27th, 2002 which, claim many lives and property.
Unfortunately,my client and the family lost their lives in that disaster
that needed not
to have happened.


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 nsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted
you.
My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the fund
(Estate) left behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the company where this huge deposit were
lodged in, where the deceased had an account valued at about US$9.2 million.

The company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the

account confiscated within the next 14 official working days.


Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over one
year, now I seek your consent as the next of kin of the deceased since you

have the same last name/surname so that the proceeds of this account valued

at US$9.2 million can be paid to you. I will provide all the necessary
official and legal documents that can be used to back up your claim. All
I
require is your honest co-operation to enable me as the legal attorney to
the
deceased in seeing that you receive your inheritance fund. I guarantee that
this
will be executed legitimately to protect you from any breach of the
law.

You can find informations about the January 27th, 2002 Bomb Explosion
on the website below.

http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/020130Lagos3/

Please get back to me through this email
address(barr_adamu5@yahoo.com)
for further discussion.

Best regards,
Barrister Francis Adamu.



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