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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.Johnson" <tochijohnsonj02@handbag.com>
Reply-To: tochijohnson02@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:54:41 +0000
Subject: Letter/call me+002289287871

Dear friend,

I am Mr. Tochi Johnson, the auditing manager of Banque Togolaise Pour
Le Commerce Et Industrie (BTCI) Lome Togo. During our investigation and
auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money
belonging to a deceased person who died on 31st October 1999 in a plane
crash and the fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without
any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation
before my discovery to this issue. The said amount was U.S $1.7 M (One
Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonafide
next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this
money to a foreign account has been put in place . The transfer of this
fund will require a second party or fellow who will forward claim as the
next of kin with affidavit of trust of oath to the Bank and also present
a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into
on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by the
correspondent branch of the bank where the whole money will be remitted
from to your own designation bank account.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On
smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the
total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses
that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone bills, while
65% will be for me. I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this
bank until you confirm the money in your account and I will come over to
your country for my own share of the fund.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Tochi Johnson
Call me +228 928 78 71.
Reply to:tocjohnson@voila.fr





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