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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: hopewell_j112@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:06:57 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?SECURED=20INFO=20REPLY=20URGENTLY?=

STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC,
EASTERN REGIONAL HEAD QUARTERS,
NO 50 WEST AVENUE LAGOS ISLAND
LAGOS STATE,
NIGERIA.

ATTN:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am the Bank manager of standard trust bank Nigeria plc.i will like to
a very brief business with you,there is a dormant account in my bank with
a credit balance o(USD$12.000.000.00)Twelve million united state dollars
which has been dormant for about five years now,on my further investigation
i discovered that the owner of this account is a foreigner(Mr Robert Park)who
died five years ago in a motor accident along side his wife and two children,coincidentally
he shares the same surname with you but left no information about his next
of kin for the account because he was hiding the source of the money from
the government.

what i need from you is to use your name as the beneficiary and next of
kin to the original account owner and then i will use my position as the
bank manger to give clearance and onward remission of the fund into your
nominated account.i will supply you with allnecessary information about
the account which you will present to the bank through a lawyer, after the
bank has accepted your application then i will go ahead and destroy every
documents associated with this transaction and we will go ahead and share
the money at the ratio

20% for your services to me and
75% for me, the remaining
5%will be set aside for any expenses incurred

during this transaction.Please your urgent reply is highly needed so as
to stop futher contacts.this is for someone who know the value of banking
system,kindly include your telephone and fax numbers.

Thanks,

Best Regards.
Dr John Hopewell




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