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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: usman_bello03@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 22:40:59 +0000
Subject: TREAT URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am Mr KARIM AHMED , the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department african develoment bank annex burkina faso ouagadougou.


I discovered the sum of thirty million, five hundred thousand United States
Dollars (USD20.5M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund
has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to put claim
over the money since the account owner late die, he who was involved in
the December 25th Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website on cnn
= http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer
of the bank. I agree that 60% of this money will be for me and 30% will
be for you as respect to the provision of a foreign account , 10% will
be set aside for expenses incurred during the business.Thereafter, I will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.
Therefore, to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first
to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank
name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication and location where the money will be transfer.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this mail on:(00226
76 47 37 19)
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully.
KARIM AHMED.







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