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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: "JOSEPH KINGSLEY" <jsph_kingsley@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jsfkngsl@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 20:01:12 +0100
Subject: for ur perusal

Zulberg Closeoff
Ernest Oppenheimer
Road Bruma Lake,
Johannesburg,2196
South Africa.
Dear Friend,
I want to transfer ($125,000.000.00 USD) One Hundred & Twenty five

million United States Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South Africa to

an oversea account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in

this transaction. This is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly

confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and

reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude.
I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into

your safe account for unward investment.You can either provide us with

an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to

receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money,

as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important

business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down

either now or in future.
I am the personal account officer to the great late INDUSTRIALIST who

has an account in one of the top banks here in South Africa. The

account was opened in 1998 and he died in 2003 without a written or

oral WILL and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account again

hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out

urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows

about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other

beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the company.My

investigation through the National immigration department proved to me

as well that he was single as at the time of his entry into the

Republic of South Africa. The amount in this account is USD$125 Million

( One Hundred & Twenty five Million United States Dollars ) only.
As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for

investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the

management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct

information to this account which I will give to you immediately, if

you are interested to do this business with me.There is no risk in this

business. With my position and my personal contact with the manager of

the bank, the money can be transferred to any account you can provide

with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical

arrival in your country for sharing.
We will start the first transfer with Twenty five million

[$25,000.000]. Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from

your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance

of $100 Million to your account. I am only contacting you as a

foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person

here, but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct

information of the account which I will provide for you.
So you should provide me with your correct account detail where you

will like the fund to be transferred or you can set up a new account

for the transfer even an empty account is ok. At the conclussion of the

transfer you will take 35%,5% will be for any expenses both parties

incurred in the process of this business and the remaining 60% will be

for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that

you will not let me down once the fund goes into your account I will

then start the processing of the transfer of the fund to your account

without further delay.

Contact me urgently via jjsfkngsl@yahoo.com privately for further

details.
Thanks.
Yours Faithfully,
JOSEPH KINGSLEY
jsfkngsl@yahoo.com




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