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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: "james nkana" <jnkana34@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:03:23 +0200
Subject: Urgent Business Request

Urgent Business Request

Bank Of (F.N.B)

Registration Number : 1947/025414/06

TEL+ 27-732-079-295,

ATTN: DIR/CEO.

I am Mr James Nkana the manager of Johannesburg branch of First National
Bank of South Africa group, During the crisis in the Republic of Zimbabwe a
well-known individual
secured a huge amount of money, which was deposited with my bank. This
amount ((USD27.350 million)Twenty seven Million three hundred and fifty
thousand United States Dollars.) was deposited with my branch through my
help.

Due to the nature through which this money was obtained some declaration was
not made which made it impossible to place a next of kin as a beneficiary in
case of death. This money was meant to sponsor Campaign against Mugabe,
which did not work out. Mr. George Stephens who was later
murdered has left no one to claim this money.

Now considering the stance of South African government towards the issue in
Zimbabwe it is unlikely that the government will grant the idea of sending
this money back to Zimbabwe, since nobody had ever since then stand to claim
the money.

Now considering my position in this bank I can get every document that will
be required to get this money into a foreign account. This is the reason I
decide to solicit for your help. All I want from you is your acceptance to
use your company?s account or your private account, which you know that will
be capable of carrying this money.

I want you to know that as I said this money did not belong to me but due to
the way this money have come into the country I stand the chance with my
position to get this money out of South Africa without problem. If you will
accept to carry out this operation with me, we shall divide the money
accordingly the moment the money gets into your account.

If you consider this letter acceptable please use my phone number above at
all hours. Every other information, which you may need to know, will be
reaching you on demand.

Waiting to hear from you soon,

Best Regards

Mr James Nkana


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