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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: spifftaylor@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:08:36 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20BIZ=2E=20REQUEST=2E?=


Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Dr. Emmanuel Spiff Ogor; the Managing Director/Chief Executive
Officer, ACB International Bank Plc; formerly African Continental Bank Plc.

I am contacting you to assist in the claim of some outstanding sum of money
which was left by one of my very good clients who died in a ghastly motor
accident here in Nigeria two years ago. This client, Engr. Renee Gallant,
was an engineer with one of the foremost construction firms here in Nigeria;
Dantata& Sawoe. He left no known next of kin and all our attempts to trace
someone related to him to whom we could pay the money have met a dead end.

I have now personally decided to contact you to stand on behalf of the family
so I can present you as his next of kin using my influence as the executive
director of this bank.A Law firm to process and notarize all the necessary
documents and letter of Probate administration in your favor in order for
the transfer to take place. A bank account in any part of the world which
you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you
as the beneficiary/next-of-kin. This way, the money can be paid to your
account: 30% will be for you while 70% will be for me.
There is no risk in this project at all as all the paperwork for this transaction
will be done by the Attorney and my position as the chief executive officer
guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. Please, contact
me immediately if you are interested so that the claim can take place immediately.
The amount involved is USD10.6 million, which is the account balance.
I look forward to hearing from you . Please send your response to my private
email address as follows: [ogman@myway.com] for security reasons. You can
also reach me by phone number: 234 802 750 7460.
Yours faithfully,
Emma Spiff Ogor




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