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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: jangdoo-hwan <jangdoo-hwan@uku.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 06:09:40 -0500
Subject: FOREIGN PARTNER



From: Mr Jang Doo-Hwan
South Korea
Secured email:mrjang@ny.com

Dear beloved,

ACT AS MY FOREIGN BUSINESS PARTNER

Greetings from me and my family,Getting your contact
was not an easy
task since I am not too computer literate, but due
to the absolute
confidentiality needed for the successful
consummation of this
transaction,

i decided to seek by myself through email directory
where i got your
email
contact.I am contacting you on the hope that you
will gladly assist me
and
also keep everything to yourself because of the
sensitive nature of
this
transaction.
My name is MR JANG DOO-HWAN, The brother of Mr. CHUN
DOO-HWAN, the
former President of South Korea who seized power in
a
military coup
in 1980 and who ruled from 1980 to 1988.

My brother was pushed out of office and charged with
treason ,corruption and embezzlement of over
21billion won.

He was wrongly sentenced to death but fortunately
AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL stepped in and commuted the sentence
to
life,
We thank God that he has finally being released
though still under
house arrest in the sense of conditions of the
freedom.

During my brother's regime as president of South
Korea, we realized
some reasonable amount of money from various deals
that we
successfully executed, I have plans to invest this
money for my children?s future on real estate and
industrial production.

Before my brother was overthrown, I secretly
siphoned the sum of
$40,000,000 million USD (Forty million United states
dollars) out
of Seoul and deposited the money with a security
firm
that
transports valuable goods and consignments through
diplomatic means.

I am contacting you because I want you to deal with
the Security
Company and claim the money on my behalf since I
have
declared that
the consignment belongs to my foreign business
partner.

You shall also be required to assist me in
investment
in your
country, I hope to know more about you as i need to
trust you as a God
fearing
person
who will not sit on this money when you claim it,
rather assist me properly, I expect you to declare
what percentage of the total money you will take for
your assistance by negotiation.

When I receive your positive response I will let you
know where the
Security Company is and the payment pin code to
claim
the money
which is very important.

What i need is to indicate your interest that you
will assist me by
receiving the money on my Behalf in Europe.For this,
you shall be
considered
to
be the beneficiary/recipient of the money.

The project in brief, is that the funds with which i
intend to
carry out my proposed investments in your Country
is presently in the custody of a Diplomatic Courier
Services Company in Europe.

I cannot do this myself because i do not have
any relatives
living outside South Korea and moreover i do not
want the
government of my Country to know about the money
because they will
believe I got the money from my brother while he was
still in office as president.

As soon as you are able to secure this funds out of
the firm, i intend
to use my own
share in acquiring some estates abroad for the
future of my children.

For this too you shall also be our family overseas
manager
of all our
properties and you will be paid based on a certain
percentage agreed
on by both parties.

For now, let all our communication be by e-mail for
security and safety
reasons.

Upon all, also send me your telephone and fax
number.
to enable me to always place
calls through to you if the need arises at my
convenient so as to avoid
the case whereby people will be listening to our
conversation.
I will ask my son to contact you and work hand to
hand with you after I

have receive a response from you.

I am going to introduce you to my son as an age long
friend so as to
prevent him from knowing the beginning of our
relationship as he may
disclose
this confidential transaction to any of his own
friends who are always
around
him probably for financial gains and
treacherous if
he gives them the opportunity.

This I got from the experience I had when the people
turned against
Chun, my brother that became the prelude of our
sorrow. The reason
why it took this long was that the Security
Company?s
agreement with
me was that my brother must personally sign the
Power
of Attorney
that will transfer title to the prospective
beneficiary. It was a
long wait but it paid off.

His excellency, Chun Doo-Hwan does not want to be
personally
involved for security reason.

Your quick response will be highly appreciated.

Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.

Yours faithfully,

MR JANG DOO-HWAN




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