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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: prof.soludocbn@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:34:18 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?EXECUTIVE=20GOVEORN=20OF=20CENTRAL=20BANK=20OF=20NIGERIA?=

From: PROF. CHARLES SOLUDO
EXECUTIVE GOVEORN OF CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
Email: cenbanknigerian@yahoo.co.uk
WWW:cenbank.org
Attn Sir

I am sorry to tell you this but i believe as much as i know you from our
chart in the internate I value you as one who can keep secret and have trust,
you can keep this secret and urgent, I know it will favour both of us at
the end. My name is prof charles saludo, the regional manager of a branch
of central
Nigeria Plc. I am a Nigeria married with two kids. I have packaged a financial
transaction that will benefit both of us. As the regional manager of the
bank, it\'s my duty to send financial reports to my head office in Lagos.
On the course of the last year 2003 end of the of the year\'s report, I
discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made NINE
Million Dollars (9,000,000.00) of which my head office is not aware of
and will never be aware of it. I have since then
PLACED this fund on a SUSPENCE ACCOUNT without a beneficiary. As an officer
of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled
to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account.
I intend to part 20% of this fund t o you, 10% for the expenses incurred
in
documentation while 70% shall be for me. I do need to assured you that there
are practically no risk involved in this.
It\'s going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand
as the original depositor of this fund.
If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response.
Please reply to cenbanknigerian@yahoo.co.uk
Regards,
profcharles soludo
EXECUTIVE GOVEORN OF CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

N.B Note: I want you to beware of Nigerians scammers who use my name for
illegal business, but I have give you the central abnk of Nigeria web Site
find about me, and I will also send my international passport for proper
ideneification.
Thanks.






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