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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: "Mr. Patrick Eze Williams" <mother4us@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: patrick31@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:09:27 +0100
Subject: BUSINESS FINE

BUSINESS FINE
NIGERIAN PETROLEUM REFINING COMPANY
13 LYCH STREET, LAGOS- NIGERIA.

Contact Me With This email: ( patrickeze@business1.com )

Attn: The President/ Managing Director.

Dear Sir,

Re: Urgent/ Confidential Transfer Of Funds.


I am Mr.Patrick Eze Williams , a director of the contracts award
and review Department with the Nigeria Petroleum Refining Company.
(NPRC). I am contacting you on this business of transferring the
sum of Twenty Million United States Dollars ($20M)) into a safe
foreign
account and the need is very urgent.

I got your contact from your country's business Directory and it is
with business trust that made me to contact you on this matter. I
write to solicit for your assistance to receive this money on my
behalf. A consortium of foreign contractors generated this money
from an over invoice contract sum for contracts that were executed
in my corporation (NPRC). I am contacting you to assist me transfer
and receive this money because as a civil servant, I an not
permitted to own foreign accounts due to civil service code of
conduct here in my country Nigeria . Also the fund must be
transferred abroad because foreign contractor executed the
contracts originally.

After the transfer is done, 25% of this sum would be for you as
compensation for your assistance in transferring this money, 5%
would be used to reimburse the expenses made during the processing
of the transfer by both parties, while 70% is for me.

I will arrange to travel to meet with you immediately after the
successful conclusion of the transfer; the 75% share of mine will
be used for investment overseas.

If you are interested I will require your banking information as
mentioned below:

1. Name to be used as the beneficiary and beneficiary's address
2. Your private and confidential telephone and fax number (s)
3. Your bank name, bank address, bank telephone and fax number(s)
4. Or if you are comfortable with providing you existing account, you can
within the shortest possible time, confidentially open an entirely
new (virgin) account for the transaction.

I hope to conclude this business within the next 14 working days.
Looking forward to your anticipated and urgent positive response. ,
it would be best to respond by my email or phone above.

I encourage you to maintain absolute confidentiality over the transaction
for
our mutual benefit.

Best regards,


Mr.Patrick Eze Williams


___________________________________________________________

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