joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

• About the 419 (Advance Fee) scam
• "Is that email a scam?" - Check it online here!
  
• Frequently asked Questions (419 FAQ)
• Phone numbers used by 419 scammers
  (+225 +229 +234 +27 +31 +32 +34 +44 other)
• Company names mentioned in 419 spam:
  1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Support our efforts to stop scams!
  
• How to report 419 spam to us
• What can you do when you receive 419 spam
  
  
• Spam archive, Daily index
  

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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

Fraud email example:

From: ericwilliams60005@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:56:30 +0200
Subject: Re:CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT

FROM. MR. ERIC WILLIAMS
16B. ROGGEBAAI GRA,SANDTON

JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.




ATTN: CEO/PRESIDENT.


CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT

I am MR. ERIC WILLIAMS the chief auditor of {ABSA} bank South Africa.
I got your contact address from your country’s Trade Journal. Your
impressive and managerial records made to solicit for your partnership
these regards. You are the only person that I have contacted in this
business with the believe that you will not let me down. After going through
some old files in the records department, I discovered that there is an
account opened in this bank in 1982 and since 1992, nobody has operated
in this account. The owner of this account is late Mr. Jerome N. Snaga,
a foreigner and a miner at the Anglo Gold Platinum Mining Company in
Mafikeng, as a geologist by profession and he died since 1992. Up till
now, nobody knows about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that this company does not know anything about this account and the
amount involved is US$42M (Fourty-Two Million United States Dollars) and I
want to first transfer US$12M (Twelve Million United States Dollars)
from the money into a safe foreign account abroad before the rest, but
I’ve not gotten a trusted foreigner.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local bank here, but can be approved to any foreign account
because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the account
Mr. Snaga was a foreigner and because of the need to involve a
foreigner account, I need your full co-operation to make this work smoothly
because the management is ready to approve this payment to whoever that
has correct information to this account. Of which I will give to you
later, if you are able to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust
according to my instruction and advice for our mutual benefits because
this opportunity will never come again in my life, need your strong
assurance reliability with my position now in the office, I can transfer
this money to any reliable account, which you can provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your
country for sharing.


I will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this
money, leaving no trace of any. You can also come to discuss with me
face-to-face then the remittance will be made in the presence of both of
us. Then we will fly to your country at least two days ahead before the
money gets into your account.

I have the tendency to invest my own share of the money in your
country in expectation to sound management and good capital returns according
to your advice. Be assured that you stand no risk of any kind as the
fund belongs to us now. Therefore after the eventual stage of the
transfer of this fund, I am offering you 25% of the total fund, 70% will be
for me while 5% will be set aside for expenses that might incur during
the course of this transaction OR you can call me to discuss on the
percentage if this did not go well with you. I strongly believe that
association with you to embark on this fund, other business ventures will
derive a huge success thereafter. I will use my position to influence to
effect approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance forms from the ministries and foreign exchange
department. I am counting on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my
desire to keep this to yourself. Looking forward to your urgent response.



Best Regards,


MR. ERIC WILLIAMS

Unless otherwise indicate or obvious from the nature of this
transmittal, the information contained in this email message is privileged and
confidential information intended for the use of the individual or entity
named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended
recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the recipient,
you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or coping
of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this
in error or are not sure whether it is privileged, please immediately
notify me by above numbers or email address and return or destroy the
original.
Thanks

This is my office mail and my private mail, you are free to contact me
any of then so that i can be able to give you answer without delay.

Private Phone Nunmber: +27-733-174-801
Office mail: ericwilliams0@accountant.com
Private mail: ericwilliams0@mail.com
Family mail: eric.williams@hotmail.ro

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam