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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: hamedmekanu@terra.com.mx
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 19:10:32 +0000
Subject: salamaleikum

Hello,
EMAIL;hamedmekanu1@yahoo.co.uk
salamaleikum
My name is HAMED MEKANU, the manager in charge of auditing and accounting
section of Banque Biao CI I'm contacting you based on the findings I discovered
in my department. There was this deposit of thirty-five point five million
United States dollars {$35,500,000.00] in a NOSTRO account.
Nostro account is an account held by a bank in correspondent bank abroad.
Such accounts are operated on the same basis as Lawyer-client accounts,
where the names of the actual owners of the money remain disguised. I discovered
that this account may have been used by the foreign banks For the purpose
of receiving funds from the third parties, and then Transferring same to
other third parties in abroad. Apparently, during my investigations, I discovered
that one Mr. Gohil, who physically handled the account died several years
ago and no person has put up claims thereafter. Therefore, I and two of
my junior colleagues decided to contact you, so that you will present yourself
as the next of kin to the deposit. Whereupon, I will furnish you with all
the details of the account and the requirement for the claims. Below is
how we ll be actualizing the project/
{A} an application of claims will be send to the bank.
{B} all other essential detail/s and information/s will be supplied to you,
where you will in turn send same to the bank.
{C} after all these procedures must?ve been accomplished, the bank will
remit deposit into your account. Then I will come over to your country for
the sharing.
Note that this project is free from any illegal implications. We perfected
the ground layer before contacting you. You will neither visit the bank
either on or before the conclusion of the project. Its purely on paper-work.
Lastly, your participatory percentage is 30% of the total sum.
Expecting your _Expression of Interest [EoI] thro in this email addres (hamedmekanu1@yahoo.co.uk

) or telephone/
Thank's
salam
MEKANU


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