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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: edenassociates@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 01:03:22 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?please=20reply=20urgently?=


SHUNAMI EDEN & ASSOCIATES.
#3 British EmbasseyAvenue, Ikeja,
Lagos, Nigeria.

Dear Friend,

I am Barrister SHUNAMI EDEN, personal attorney to Mr PATRICK k., an
expartriate
who used to work with
Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC), here in Nigeria.
On the 2nd of January 2005,I recieved a call that my client died in the
Tsunami Disaster with his wife and two kids while on Vacation at Phuket
Island in Thailand.
Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of myclient's
extended
relatives. This has proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful
attempts,
I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet hence I contacted
you.

I contacted you to assist in repartriating the money left behind by my
client
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where
this deposit waslodged.Particularly, the bank where the deceased had an
account valued at US$7,500,000.00(Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United
States Dollars).
The bank issued me a notice to provide the next-of- kin or have the
account
confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
of
my late client,I seek your consent to present you as the Next-of-kin to
the deceased since u are a foreiner, so that the proceeds of
this
account valued at US$7.5M can be paid to you and then you and me can
share
the money; 50% to me and 40% to you, 5% will
be for expenses and inheritance tax,while 5% will be donated to the
Tsunami
Disaster Charity Fund.
I have all necessary legal documents that will be used to back up our
inherittance
claims. All I require is your honest co-operation.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that
will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please contact me by email to enable us discuss further.
For privacy and confidentiality reply using my email box.
shunami@lawyerzone.com
Yours faithfully,
Barrister Shunami Eden..






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