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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: "SALIU DIALLO" <saliudiallo@zipmail.com.br> (may be fake)
Reply-To: saliudiallo@mmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:57:35 +0000
Subject: partnership.


N: PRESIDENT/CEO
I am ALHAJI SALIU DIALLO, the Group Manager
Consignment/TreasuryDepartment of a Royal Exchange
Financial Trust and Security Company(REFTSC) in Dakar
Senegal, having offshore payment centers in America,
Spain, Ghana and Holland for the effectiveness of our
services to our highly esteem customers worldwild.

Recently, we discovered a dormant consignment with a
substantial amount of money valued at Forty Million
United States Dollars (US $40,000,000.00) lodged in
two metal boxes with security tag number:
REFTSC/FGN/C117/98 that belongs to one of our numerous
customers, who died in a motor accident in November
1998.

During the period of our investigation, we discovered
that the deceased died along with his only son and
wife, leaving no WILL and nobody behind to come for
the claim as next of kin. The policy guidelines/law of
our firm stipulates that if such consignment remains
unclaimed for Six years, it will be forfeited to the
firm's treasury as an unclaimed
consignment/bill, as a Senegalise, I cannot stand as the
next of kin to a foreigner or an international
personality.It is upon this discovery that I as the
group head of this department decided to contact you
to collaborate with me to pull out this dormant
consignment. I am going to give you 30% of the total
fund if this proposal meets your interest.

Urgently, reach me through the stated e-mail below to
enable me give you the full details for this
transaction and how it is going to work out. Also
include your personal telephone and fax number for
easy communication.What I want from you is to act as
the deceased's next of kin. I have in my possession
(alone) all necessary legal documents which will
authenticate you as the next of kin in order to
successfully accomplish this business.

However, it will be require that you shall be
physically present in any of our clearing centers
abroad to pull out this fund for onward transmission
into your bank account.I will facilitate all the
process to see that you claim this fund without stress
as all the details will be known to you before your
trip to our clearing house abroad for the signing and
claiming of the consignment.The next of kin must be
present in any of our offshore payment centers to sign
for the release documents which take a maximum of
three (3)working days to conclude.Further information
will be given to you as soon as I receive your
positive response via my phone 002215215225 or email:
saliudiallo@mmail.com

I thank you so much for your sincerity and Please do
understand that I can not suceed on this project
without your sincere help as an international
personality.

Anticipate your urgent reply.

Regards,
ALHAJI saliu diallo.
REFTSC Senegal.
#4 Igbajor lane(White House)
Eng moor street,dakar.
Tel:002215215225.
Please call or do reply via:saliudiallo@mmail.com



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