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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: ali_09mohamed@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:46:07 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Friend,


First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction
and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval
considering the facts we have not known each other before; I wish to use
this opportunity to introduce myself to you.

My name is ALI MOHAMED the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of BANQUE INTERNATIONAL DU BURKINA. I got your address
through a friend who work in Burkina Faso chambers of commerce.
Williams
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $U.S18.5Million dollars
(Eighteen million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in November 1999 in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department
now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money
to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since no one is coming for it and we don't want this money
to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guiding here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years the money will be transferred into the bank treasury
as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business
is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinab¡¦cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me and my colleagues.
There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentage indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein
the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact
me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.


Yours faithfully
ALI Mohamed
Bill & Exchange Manager.




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