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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: solomon mudani <samuelmboge1@tatanova.com>
Reply-To: solomon mudani <solomonmudani_30@yahoo.com>
Date:
Subject: HIGHLY BUSINESS PROPOSAL.........

3/5 RIDER HAGGARD
CLOSE, JO, BORG
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL NO:27 73 45 57 921
FAX NO:+871 762 606695
{URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL)

(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 152,000.000.00 USD)
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO MILLION DOLLARS

Dear sir/Madam,

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 152,000.000.00USD) One hundred and
Fifty two million United StatesDollars) from a Bank in Africa, I want to
ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new
Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me
till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing
in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.
I am MR SOLOMON MUDANI, the Auditor General of a bank in Africa, during
the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account
opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this
account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered
that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Arthur Coleman , a foreigner, and an
Industrialist, who died since 1993 and no other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that Arthur Coleman until his death was the
manager of Coleman Co.(pty). SA. We will start the first transfer with fifty two million [$52,000.000] upon successful ransaction
without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of
the remaining amount to your account.
The amount involved is (USD 152M) One hundred and Fifty two million
United States Dollars only. I want to first transfer $52,000.000 [fifty
two million United States Dollars from this money into a safe foreigners
account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local
person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be
approved to a foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and
foreign a/c because the money is in US DOLLARS and the former owner of the a/c
Mr. Arthur Coleman is a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved
into a foreign a/c. However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together. I got your contact address from my Secretary who operates
computer. I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will
never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take urgently. Send also your private
telephone and fax numbers including the full details of the account to be used
for the deposit.
I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding
agreement that will bind us together before transferring the money to
any account of your choice where the fund will be safe before we fly to
your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments. I need your full
co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of
this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and
once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instructions
of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never,never
let me down. With my influence and the position of the bank official, we
can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can
provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical
arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all
documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to
any place and to build confidence you can come immediately to discuss with
me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your
country at least two days ahead of the money going into the account.I will
apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will
use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from
the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion
of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be
for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred
during the process of transfering.I look forward to your earliest reply using
this email address:solomonmudani77@surfy.netYours,

MR. SOLOMON MUDANI.


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