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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: faroukabdul444@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:20:57 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent=20Message=20From=20Mr=2EFarouk?=

Courtesy of business opportunity, I take liberty anchored onstrong desire
to solicit for your assistance on this mutualbeneficiary and risk free transaction
with you, which I hope you giveurgent attention. To be precise,

I am MR. FAROUK ABDUL Senior manager of ABSA BANK Limited JOHANNESBURG SOUTH
AFRICA. In mydepartment, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$ 27 Million
(TWENTYSEVEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to
one of our customers who died along with his entire family in 1988 Lockerbie
Pan American Airline plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come overand claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebodyapplied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased asindicated
in our banking procedures, but unfortunately to no avail and nobody has
come forward to claim the money.

Therefore, upon thisdiscovery that I and other two officials in my department
now decideto establish a cordial business relationship with you,hence mycontacting
you. We want you to purportedly present your good self asthe next of kin
or relation of the deceased so that we can release the fund (money)into
your account for safety and subsequent disbursementsince nobody is coming
for it and again we do not want the money to gointo the government account
as unclaimed bill .

The banking law andprocedures herein stipulates that any accounts abandoned
or dormantfor a period of some years is subject to be closed and all moneycontained
therein will be forfeited to the government treasury account. Now itis being
speculated that the above sum will be transferred into government treasury
account as unclaimed fund on or before May 2005.

The reason for you to present your good self as thenext of kin is occasioned
by the fact that the deceased customer was aforeigner.

Mode of Sharing After the successful completion ofthetransfer is as follows,
for the role you will be expected to play inthe whole exercise, we have
agreed to give you Thirty (30%) of the total sum,and the remaining 70% shall
be for my colleagues and I in support of therefore mentioned, you are urged
to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate
in the business.

After yourreply, you will be advised on the next step afterwards. I quite
believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this businesstopsecret
and confidential. Your interest will be equally protected,as we must maintain
maximum confidentiality. Trust to hear from you on this TEL NO.:+277 610
00101.

Count on your earliestreply.

Thanks
Yours faithfully
MR. FAROUK ABDUL





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