joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Fraud email example:

From: okokokimse@tiscali.it
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:40:03 -0800
Subject: From Sao Tome and Principe

Dear Friend,
7TH DECEMBER,2004

My name is Mr.Okoko Claude Kimse. I hail from Sao Tome and
Principe, 41years, married with three children. I am
the Director of Global Security & Finance Services
Limited Sao Tome and Principe.

I have been working with this company for over fifteen
years. Within this period, I have watched with
meticulous precision how African Heads of State and
Government functionaries have been using Global
Security & Finance Ltd to move sums of money USD,
Pounds Sterling, French Francs (cash) to their foreign
partners.

They bring in these consignments of cash and secretly
declare the contents as jewelries, gold, diamonds,
precious stones, family treasures, and documents
etc.Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (dead), Gen. Sanni
Abacha of Nigeria (dead), Fode Sankoy of Sierra Leone,
Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria, Felix Houphet Boigny of
Cote d"Ivoire (dead), Kanan Bedie of Cote d"Ivoire
(Abidjan) and recently Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of
Nigeria etc. All these people have many consignments
deposited with my office.

Their foreign partners, friends and relatives are
claiming most of these consignments. A lot of them are
lying here unclaimed for as much as eight years.
Nobody will ever come for them because in most cases,
the Certificate of Deposit is never available to
anybody except the depositors or me since most of them
are dead.I have through the instrumentality of Global
Security & Finance re-deposited all these unclaimed
and overstayed consignment into the Vault Facility of
a reputable Security Company in Europe.

Since the inception of the year 2000, our company's
management has changed the procedure of claims of
consignment, as soon as you are able to produce the
secret information as contained in the secret file of
any consignment, it will be released to you upon
demand.

I have finalized every arrangement for you to claim
consignment No. 1401, 1402 containing Fourty Seven Million,Five Hundred
Thousand United states Dollars. I
will supply you with all the information and documents
that will facilitate your easy claim of the
consignment. Upon your positive reply of this letter,
I will furnish you with further details and
information regarding the modus operandi for the
execution of the transaction. This business is risk
free as I have taken necessary preventive measures.
(The mode of sharing will be sixty percent for me thirty percent for you
and Ten percent for incidental expenses), you can reach me by
email and I will direct you on what to do. Upon your
positive consideration and reply of this letter I
shall furnish you with further details on how to
realize this deal. Please expedite action.

If this is agreeable to you, contact me on this e-mail
address from where i am sending you this proposal


Yours faithfully,

Okoko Claude Kimse







__________________________________________________________________
Tiscali Adsl 2 Mega Free: l'adsl piu' veloce e' gratis!
Naviga libero dai costi fissi con Tiscali Adsl 2 Mega Free, l'adsl Free
piu' veloce in Italia. In piu', se ti abboni entro il 13 dicembre 2004,
navighi gratis fino al 31 marzo 2005 e non paghi il costo di adesione.
http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/



Anti-fraud resources: