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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: "Ahmed Abdalla" <abdallaky@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:57:08 +0000
Subject: DEAR FRIEND (CONFIDENTIAL)

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Ahmed Abdalla, Director and Board
Member,Transparency International ,Kenya. I got your email
address from the web directory so I decided to contact you.

We are interested in diverting some funds currently
floating in the suspense account of the federal pay office
to your account as soon as possible.

Source of the funds are:

During the Arap Moi's government, governments officials
awarded contracts to their own companies, these contracts
were grossly over invoiced. Now the present government set
up contract review panel to settle those owed outstanding
amount. My colleagues and I have identified a huge amount
totaling US$ 370m (Three hundred and seventy million us
dollars) oversea .

We would want US$43.8m (Forty three million Eight Hundred
Thousand) dollars out this money oversea transferred to
your account because we are not eligible to operate foreign
account, and I have been mandated to search for a partner
abroad. We really want this transfer made as soon
as possible before the government, who have started
refunding money from Moi's foreign accounts track this
money.We will be offering 20% for your assistance.

If you would want to proceed with this transaction please
reply with your name and phone number
to (abdallaky@hotmail.com) and if you do not accept my
offer please treat with utmost confidentiality.

For more information check and browse carefully all the
links in the website below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3324369.stm

Best Regards,
Ahmed Abdalla,
Director & Board Member, Transparency International,Kenya.





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