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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: "tabane53@ommail.com" <tabane53@ommail.com>
Reply-To: tabane53@yahoo.it
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:46:54 -0500
Subject: PRIVATE

MR.TABANE O.TABANE.
Valiant Private Bank AG
Postfach 3001
Bern,
Swizerland
Telephone No: +871-762-604470
FAX: +871-762-604471
Email: tabane53@yahoo.it


PRIVATE AND URGENT

I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of
money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the day.I decided to contact you
due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION.

We discovered an abandoned sum of (Seven Million Five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with
his entire family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin
or relations has come forward to lay claims for this money
as the heir.We cannot release the fund from his account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this
discovery, we now seek your permission to have you stand as
a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be
carefully worked out by us for the funds (Seven Million
Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) to be released
in your favor as the beneficiaries next of kin.It may
interest you to know that we have secured from the probate
an order of madamus to locate any of deceased
beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of
our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the
following:

1.Beneficiary Name and Address
2.Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us fill letter of claim to
the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your
favor before the transfer can be made. We shall be
compensating you with a 30% Of the total amount on final
conclusion
of this projects, while the rest shall be for us for
investment purposes, if this proposal is acceptable to
you,do not take undue Advantage of the trust we have
bestowed in you.

Kindly notify me by telephone on my Direct Tel:
+871-762-604470
I await your urgent response,

Regards,

MR.TABANE O.TABANE.


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