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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: james tabo <jamestabo33@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 04:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: urgent assistant


FROM JAMES TABO
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
TEL:27-73-298-3651
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
AMALGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA. (ABSA)

ATTN DIRECTOR/C.E.O
VERY CONFIDENTAIL

With due respect and trust, I write you this proposal which I believe will be of great interest to you.
I am JAMES TABO Bank Manager of AMALGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA(ABSA).There is an account opened in our bank(ABSA) since 1999,this account has been dormant as nobody seemed to operate on this account .
After going through some old files in the records, I decided to find out why this account was desertted surprisingly i discovered the reason why this account was dormant ,at this jucnture i consider it reasonable to transfer this fund into any available over sea account because if I do not remit this fund out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Smith B.Andreas, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger Gold Company, a geologist by profession and he died since 2001. No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is (USD 20M) Twenty million United States Dollars .
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here,otherwise it wouldn,t been a problem to transfer it into any of our local banks here, but it can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account (Mr. Smith B. Andreas) is a foreigner too. I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves .
Please reply urgently so that I will know the next step to take immediately. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face or sign an agreement to bind us together so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for withdrawal and sharing and other investments option you may deem lucrative. I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with foreign account as a foreign beneficiary. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner, who has correct information of this account ,which I will give to you later if you are capable and willing to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this opportunity will ne!
ver come
again in my life.
I need truthful person in this business because I don't want to make mistake I need your strong assurance and trust. With my position now in the office I can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place.
You can also come to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and two of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the money going into the account. I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms of the ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25 %of the total amount, 70% will be for me, and while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES TABO




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