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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: "donald pius" <donaldpius77@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: d_2005pius@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:39:10 -0500
Subject: RE NEXT OF KIN

Dear Sir,
My name is Mr. Donald Pius, i work in the credit and accountsdepartmentof
African banking inco-operation,Lagos, Nigeria. I write you in respect of a
foreign customer with Domicilliary A/C number2590074169. His name is Mr
Erick Board.

He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria during the
reign of late General Sani Abacha. Sir,since the demise of this our
customer, Mr Erick Board , who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a
close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then no body has
come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Mr Erick
Board. He had only $28.5mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only
an insider that could produce the code or password of the deposit
particulars.

As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the needed
information other than my very self considering my position in the bank.
Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as
next of kin, I hereby ask for your co- operation in using your name as the
next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore
bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you.

At this point I am the only one with the information because I have removed
the deposit file from the safe. By this doing, what is required of you is to
send an application laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the late
Mr Erick Board. I will need your full name and address, company or
residential, so that i can computerize them to tally with next of kin column
in the certificate of deposit. Finally i want you to understand that the
request for a foreigner as the next of kin is ocassioned by the fact that
the customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a local cannot
represent as next of kin.

When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money will be split
betweenus. Trusting to hear from you, I remain

Respectfully yours,
Mr. Donald Pius



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