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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: adamakabore2005@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:49:24 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=20AM=20WAITING=20TO=20HEAR=20FROM=20YOU?=

MRS.ADAMA AGBISI KABORE
RESIDENCE:205 CRESENT AVENUE
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.


Dear Sir/Madam,

I am contacting you with the following investment proposal for your kind
assistance.My name is Mrs.ADAMA AGBISI KABORE, and my HUSBAND Chief KABORE
was one of the royal chiefs of Bobo Land In BURKINA-FASO, whose lands are
being used for Gold exploration and Oil drilling by some Gold companies.

My husband with other royal chiefs were receiving some royalties and he
was been paid through the African Development Bank (ADB) Unfortunately my
HUSBAND died of a heart attack on the 23rd, December 2003and after his death
and burial, records proved that he had the sum of US$970,000.00(Nine Hundred
And SeventyThousand United States Dollars in his fixed deposit account with
the ADB Burkina faso.We spent fortune during his burial and other funeral
rites as custom requires and this bring hard times for the family.

Before his untimely death, my HUSBAND was proposing for an overseas trip
for medical check up and he had already instructed ADB to move the money
from the fixed deposit account to their foreign remittance division,to be
transferred to a Bank, to be nominated by him upon his arrival in overseas
but he died unexpectedly and this money remained floating at the foreign
remittance division of the ADB,waiting for the next instruction.

Besides that,Due to his sudden death he did not wrote down his "WILLS".This
made it difficult for us the members of the family to lay claims of the
fund,unless we source for oversea account/partner as in regards to my HUSBAND's
earlier request to his Bank.I have therefore decided to transfer this money
to any stable and reliable overseas company organisation for direct private
investment on joint venture partnership for profit sharing, hence I am contacting
you for necessary assistance.

I will hold 70% ownership of this money and 30% to be held by you as overseas
partner for your assistance.The net profit realized from invested fund would
be shared on the basis of 60% for me and 40% for you (the overseas partner).On
your acceptance to be my work with me please email/call me for a brief discussion
before we proceed.As soon as the fund is transferred and received by you,I
will proceed to meet you for the preparation/signing of the join venture
partnership agreement.

Thanks while looking forward to receive your urgent/favourable reply.to
my alternative E-mail ADress.(adamaskabore2005@yahoo.com


Yours faithfully,
Mrs.ADAMA AGBISI KABORE.




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