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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: jokoromani@voila.fr (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 20:37:01 +0000
Subject: Business chance.

I am Mr. Joseph . K.(MNIM), the co-ordinator of the Rupoblique of Togo panel of the Nationaux Gas Company (NGC).Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a conglomerate of foreign companies by my committee on behalf of the NGC, this contract was deliberately over-invoiced to the tune of US$24.5 million as a deal by members of my committee to benfit from the project.with the govt present instability as a results of the late presidents death we had transfered this money to DRC Dakar .but with my y demgbe demission as interien presedent and cooperations with the cedao head of sates its not selve within the subregion.
Therefore, We now desire to transfer this money into a foreign partiners account . The money is presently in a suspense account of the NGC in the Debt Reconciliation Committee (DRC) we expect you to kindly provide for us the below informations, this we believe will not be so much of a burden to you.
Required informations :
A. Name and address of beneficiary
B. Your bank account number,
c. company address and other information relevant to the project at hand.
Benefits:
For providing the account where we shall remit the money, you will be entitled to 25% of the money, 70% will be for me and my partners while 5% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that may be incurred by us during the course of this transaction, both local and international expenses, these also include taxes that may arise.

Note pls . It is not necessary that the account you are providing should have money in it, what matters is that it should had been in existence for a while (accounts dynamics) and
you should have a 100% control over it.The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money for onward transfer to your account. It does not matter whether or not your company or you performed contract projects of the nature described here, the assumption is that you won a major contract and sub-contracted it out to other companies. More often , big trading companies or individuals of unrelated field win major contrats and sub-contracts it out to more specialised firms for execution of such contracts. We have strong and reliable connections
and contacts at the Debt Reconciliation Committee (DRC) and we have no doubts that all this money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner for this transaction. Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded, we shall, through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned government ministries for 100% security.We want this money to be transferred to the overseas account which you are going to kindly provide for safe keeping pending when we will determine how we want our portion of the money, all expenses regarding the account opening if not already in existence shall be done by you, all mony spent from personal purse during the course of this transaction are however reimburseable as already stated from the 5% that had been set aside for this purpose after the transfer of the funds have been effected into your account that you will be providing for the purpose of this business.

Please, contact me immediately to ascertain your interest in doing us this favour, also if you are not interesting, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner
to carry out this transaction. Fortunately, if you are interested in assisting me, please send the required information mentioned . don't hesitate forward any question were you left to understood me or ask for more details on this transaction, I will surely appreciate and thank you for your kindness in giving me this assistance.
Yours sincerely,
mr JOSEPH .K.




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