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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: peterallen@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:28:12 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=20I=20NEED=20YOUR=20ASSISTANT?=

From: Mr. Peter Allen,
Chairman, Contract Award Committee,
Lagos-nigeria.
EMAIL: peterallen@mail.com
Tel: 234_80355_30570
Dear sir,

My name is Mr. Peter Allen, and on behalf of my colleagues, I humbly soliciting
for your assistance to transfer the sum of Thirty Two Million, Five Hundred
United State Dollars (US$32.5million) into a foreign account.

We are members of the Contract Award Committee, for budget and planning
of the Ministry of Petroleum, this committee is principally concerned with
contract appraisals and approval of contracts in order to priorities as
regards capital project of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

With our positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of
Thirty-Two million, five hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$32.5M).
This amount was accumulated through under cleared windfall from sales of
crude oil during the U.S.A and IRAQI War.

What we need from you is to provide a safe account into which the fund will
be transferred since Government officials are not allowed by our laws to
operate foreign account.

It has be an agreed that the owner of the account will be compensated with
10% of the remitted funds, 30% is for any expenses incur by both party during
the process of transfer, while you keep 60%, for us, pending when we are
coming to take it.
What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share
when this amount of
US$32.5Million is transferred into your account. If this proposal satisfies
you, please E-mail us, your Telephone/Fax number, and your banking particulars
so that we can advice you on the modalities of the transaction. All modalities
of the transfer have been worked out and once started will not take more
than 14 working days with the absolute support of all concerned.

This transaction is 100% safe, Please treat as urgent and very confidential.
God be with you as I look forward to your reply.

Regards,

Mr. Peter Allen
Chairman, Contract Award Committee (NNPC)
PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE MAILBOX:peterallen@mail.com
Tel: 234-803-5530-570




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