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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: augustine emeka <barristeraugustine_1@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:26:47 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Quick response needed



AUGUSTINE C EMEKA & Associates
147 Nnamdi Azikiwe Street
Ikoyi Lagos Nigeria
Email: barristeraugustine_1@yahoo.co.in
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Barrister AUGUSTINE C EMEKA (SAN), personal
attorney to a national of your country, who used to
work with Obaro Construction Company Nig.ltd. here in
Nigeria herein after, shall be referred to as my
client. My client with his entire family (The wife and
Two children) were involved in the bomb explosion in
Lagos, Nigeria, on January 27th, 2002 which claim many
lives and property. Unfortunately, my client and the
family lost their lives in that disaster that needed
not to have happened. Since then I have made several
enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided
to track his last name over the Internet, to locate
any member of his family hence I contacted you. My
purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating
the funds left behind by my client prior to his death
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable
by the Finance company where this huge deposit were
lodged in,where the deceased had an account valued at
about US$7 million. The company had issued me a notice
to provide the next of
kin or have the account confiscated within the next 14
official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful
in locating the relatives for over one year, now I
seek your consent as the next of kin of the deceased
since you have the samelast name/surname so that the
proceeds of this account valued at US$7million can be
paid to you, I will
provide all the necessary official and legal documents
that can be used to back up your claim.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable me
as the legal attorney to the deceased in seeing that
you receive your inherited fund, I guarantee that this
will be executed legitimately to protect you from any
breach of the law. You can find informations about the
January 27th, 2002 Bomb Explosion on the website
below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
Please get back to me through this email address:
barristeraugustine_1@yahoo.co.in for further discussion.
Best regards,
Barr. AUGUSTINE C EMEKA







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