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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: abdul_salami08@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:56:52 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20THE=20DESK=20OF=20MR=20ABDUL=20SALAMI=20USTAHD=2E?=

FROM THE DESK OF MR ABDUL SALAMI USTAHD.
MANAGER BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICAN,
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO


Dear Friend,
I hope that this letter will not be a surprise to you. I got your contact
through Yahoo people search. My name is ABDUL SALAMI USTAHD. I am the manager
of Bill and Exchange at the Foriegn Remittance department of BANK OF AFRICAN.


In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of $20.3 (twenty million
three hundred thousand us dollas) in an Account that belongs to one of our
foriegn 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
somebody applies for it as the next of kin or a relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidlines but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin relation died alongside with
him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I and one of my boy in my department decided to
make this
business proposal to you so that the bank can release the money to you as
the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The Banking law and guidline here stipulate that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
Treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand
as next of kin to foreigner. We are therefore soliciting for your assistance
to come forward as the next of kin. We have agreed that 15% of this money
will be for you as the beneficiary in respect of the
provision of your Account and services rendered. 75% would be for me and
my collegue while 10% will be for expencses incured during the cause of
the transaction.
On completion of everything, and the money is transferred to your Account
from BANK OF AFRICAN.

I and my other colleagues involved in this transaction will proceed immediately
to your country for our own share of the money.
I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret as
you may wish to know thatwe are Bank officials.
Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk free on both side and
very arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to
provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality and
secrecy involved.

Please contact me on <abdul_salami001@yahoo.com> Or through the same E-mail
account. I am looking forward for your prompt response.
Yours sincerely,
ABDUL SALAMI USTAHD (ASU)




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