joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Fraud email example:

From: ANDRE HACEMEIER <andre.hacemeier@btopenworld.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:35:37 +0100 (BST)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION


Attention:Manager/President,

I am Acct. Andre Hacemeier, Accounts Manager, Ghana Commercial Bank,Acrra Ghana www.gcb.com.gh. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.

An American Oil consultant and contractor with the African Solid Minerals Corporation, Mr Salah Adam,made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$16,000,000.00 (Sixteen Million Dollars) in my branch. upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the African Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr.Salah Adam, died in a plane crash along with his wife Mr and Mrs Salah & Shaline Adam in Egypt Air Flight 990,1999 air crash and was directed to this site for more information about this crash http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-99/11-02-99/d08ho174.htm

Since we got this information about his death and on further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr.Salah Adam, did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$16,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.

For one will ever come forward to claim it. According to British Laws, at the expiration of 7 (seven) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Ghanian Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently,my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr.Salah Adam so that we can recieve this money.

"This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin, including your bank details, which will include the name of the bank, complete address of the bank, the account number, routing number if any for the immediate transfer of this funds" . Recently, we got wind of information that the Government are making plans to revert this fund to the country's apex bank and may be some top government official might sit on this money.

This was where we took it upon ourselves to transfer the fund to one of our correspondent security/finance firm in London-England for your easy collection. As soon as you receive this mail and ready for the transfer, then get prepared to travel down to the security company in London for the collection of this fund with the help of the documents which i shall send to you once you indicate your interest to make this trip to London.

Alternatively, If you find it very difficut to make this trip to London,then a bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin.

Trust me as there is no risk at all as i have been giving the order of madamus to look for the kin to Late. Salah Adam.The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 90% for me and 10% for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as the Accounts Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address above.

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details that will help you understand the transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and faxnumbers for easy communication.Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply.

Regards,
Acct. Andre Hacemeier













































---------------------------------
Does your mail provider give you access to messages sent to other POP email accounts, like your work account? Get Yahoo! Mail

Anti-fraud resources: