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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: "Desk office" <infodesk8@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:05:58 +0000
Subject: Dear sir,

Dear sir,

We are sending this letter to you based on information
gathererd from the foreing trade office of the
Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and industry.We believe
you are in a position to help us in our bid to
transfer the sum of Forty one million,Five hundred
thousand United states dollars only($41.5M) into a
foreign account.

We are members of the special commitee for budget and
planning of the minister of Petroleum.This committee
is principally concerned with contracts appraisals and
approval of contracts in order of priorities as
regards Capital project of The Federal Government Of
Nigeria.With our positions,we have successfully
secured for ourselves the said amount.This amount was
accumulated through undeclared windfall from the
sales of Nigerian crude oil during the Gulf war.

what we need from you is to provide a safe account
into which funds will be transfered since government
officials are not allowed by our laws to operate
foreign account.It has been agreed that the owner of
the account will be compesated with US$8.3m of the
remmited funds .We keep US$31.125M while US$2.075M
will be set aside to offside expenses and pay the
neccessary taxes.

It may interest you to know that two years ago,a
similar transaction was carried out with one
Mr.Patrice Miller.The president of Craine
International Corporation at No.135,East 57th
street,28th floor New York.10022 with
telephone(212308-7788 and telex No.6731689.After the
agreement between both parties in which he was to take
5%.The money was
duly transfered into his account only to be
dissapointed on our arrival in New York as we are
reliably informed that mr.Patrice Miller was no longer
on that address while his phone number has been
reallocated to somebody else,that was how we lost
US$27.5M to Mr.Patrice Miller.

This time around we need a more reliable and
trustworthy person or a reputable company to do
business with hence this letter to you.So if
you can proove yourselve trusted and interested in
this deal then we are prepared to do business with
you.what we want from you is that assurance that you
will let us have our share when this amount of
US$41.5M is transfered into your account.

If this proposal satisfy you,please email me so that
we can advise you on the modalities of the
transaction.All modalities of the transfer has
been worked out and once started will not take more
than 14 working days with absolute support of all
concerned.
Please do endevour to hasten your interest,
in ths transaction by contacting
me immediatelly on my direct Emails:
sulebature@gmail.com//victorahmeed@walla.com
This transaction is 100% SAFE.

Dr.Sule Bature.


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