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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: "Dr, Ateeq Rahman khan." <drrahman_khan@myway.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dr_rahmankhan@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 14:34:16 +0400
Subject: Awaiting your reply very shotrly.

Dear Friend,
I received your email and thank you once again for allowing me to explain this trustee transaction very extensively, for our mutual benefit. Facts and nature of this trustee transaction is as follows:
1. The USD35million presently in our custody was declared as "Family Antiquities/Valuables and not Cash as to avoid raising any suspicion from the Authority. It may interest you to know that information I discovered in the Security File Jack of our deceased customer, Late Mr. JAEGES Le Grant, who was a Chemical Engineer, And former Chief Engineer of Petro-Chemie Services, based Paris-France (a Petro-Chemical Consultancy company) confirmed the total funds valued USD35Million was proceeds realised from Feasibility/Consultancy Charges from Government Contracts on Petro-chemical project.
2. Upon processing and approval of your Application of Claim, by our affiliate company, International Diplomatic Cargo Services, you shall be issued a Change of Ownership Certificate and thereby invited for collection of the package at Dubai-UAE. After the collection, you shall be guided to open a Non-Resident Domiciliary Account with one of the major first class bank in Dubai-UAE for onward transfer of the funds to your designated account in Canada. Under this process, the bank will have from this end all the required relevant documents to enable open the account, on your name. The vital documents required are Certificate of Deposit and Proof of Change of Ownership Certificate.
3. Upon completion of this transaction, I have discussed with a lawyer to prepare an Agreement of Mutual Understanding, which will serve as our guidelines indicating kind of investment plan for the funds.
And I would prefer a kind of workable Private Placement Investment Funds Trading program, where the funds will be put into trade, either in real estate, banking, chain stores or stock market sector in Canada for the total period of 1-3 years against return of actual face value of the invested amount. The earning over the investment will be paid to me on monthly basis for the first year in (10) months period. Same will apply to the second year and on completion of the both periods, it will get back the original invested amount.
This means in three years period it will have 200% over the investment which will be paid monthly period of every 30 days.
This kind of Investment Program will be based on trust and honesty for mutual benefit of our both parties. While you will be entitled to 25% of this money for handling and managing the Investment Program, 5% of the amount will be set aside for all miscellaneous expenses that will be made during course of processing this trustee transaction which is 100% risk free.

Awaiting your reply very shotrly,

Kindest reagrds,
Dr, Ateeq Rahman khan




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