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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: princessdorah@apropo.ro
Date: 21 Apr 2005 08:00:59 -0000
Subject: OFFICIAL


Dear Sir





RE: REQUEST FOR URGENT JOINT PARTNERSHIP.



How are you today, I know that this mail may come to you as a surprise regarding to this business am

about introducing to you. Please if you would not want to partake in this deal, my plead is to keep this to

yourself. Firstly, I must to introduce my self properly to you, I am DR. DORAH JONES, Director AGM

FINANCE, UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA (UBA)NIGERIA PLC, MARINA BRANCH.



RE: PREPOSITION:



I work in the credit accounts department of United Bank for Africa, Nigeria Plc, Lagos-Nigeria. I write you

in respect of our foreign customer with Domicilliary A/C number 6402356789. His name is Engineer

Manfred Berger He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria during the reign of late

General Sani Abacha.



Sir, since the death of Engineer Manfred Berger , who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close

watch of the deposit records and accounts no body has come to claim the money in this Account as next

of kin to the late Engineer Manfred Berger.

He had close diposit of $18.5mllion in his account with code. It is only me as his account manager that

could produce the code or password of the deposit particulars. As it stands now, there is nobody in that

position to produce the needed information other than my very self considering my position as his account

manager.



Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of kin, I hereby ask for

your co operation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a

foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point I am the only one with

the information because I have removed the deposit file from the safe . By so doing, what is required of

you is to send an aplication laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the late Engineer. I will need

your full name and address telephone/fax number,company or residential, also your bank name and

account,where the money will transfer into. So that I can computerize them totally with next of kin column

in the certificate of deposit.

Finally I want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is occassioned by the

fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin.

When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money will be split between us.

Trusting to hear from you,



I remain Respectfully yours,



DR.DORAH JONES,

Director AGM FINANCE,

UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA (UBA) PLC



Note bellow:

Please, send your reply to this alternative email address: E-mail:

unitedbankforafricauba@BankersMail.com






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