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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: "Dr.Bassy Desmond" <drbassydesmond@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:37:21 +0000
Subject: Mutual Trust...

Dear Sir,


Greetings to you. I am Dr.Bassy Desmond; head and member of board of
Directors/Trustee contract supplies and maintenance (CSM) of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. Few months ago, there was this contract offered by the
Federal Government for the supplies of some minting and security
printing machineries estimated at US$ 25 million.In view of this, I fronted
an imaginary foreign company name that this company is based abroad, having
explained the credibility of this
company and it's capability of handling such project/s.

That not withstanding,during a close door meeting with the preseidency,I and
my colleagues inflated the cost from the intial US$25 million to US$50
million. Now we have the suplus of US$25 million.Fortunately, that
fictitious company name was short listed the 3rd among the four selected
companies out of the 13 companies names that were recommended for this
exercise. This was made possible through the influence of the top Government
personalities that are involved.

Please, note that, this exercise was not made public due to the Government
security measure that was required over the acquisition of such items, it is
classified. The point here is that Federal Government is ready to acquire
the above mentioned items, and is ready to make 20% upfront payment by
certified bank draft through the apex bank (CBN) to the selected companies
after intense scrutiny. Note that, would you be desirous of partnering with
me and my colleagues, can we trust you? If yes the certified bank draft will
be drawn on your name as the managing director/owner of the company with the
head office abroad. In acceptance of this transaction reply by sending to us
the following information;

Your full names
Your contact address
Your telephone and fax number
Your account details as well as the swift code, to further the
transfer/payment.

Your company name(If you don't own any company, you can give us a name that
we will use as a mother company to the initial name we presented) We have
agreed to offer you 10% for your cooperation/ participation to help us make
claim of the suplus, your participation becomes imperative in view of the
fact that we are not allowed to participate in this exercise since we are
civil servants but we have used our high level in the Government to manuever
things.

And we shall send one of our colleagues to meet with you and collect our
share as soon as you have cashed the funds. Please note that, this is 100%
risk free and all your information's will be
sealed/protected. Also, note that, this exercise will take 7 working days to
perfect.We shall actively provide you with every nacessary informations as
per the quick transfer of this funds to your account.

We look forward to doing business with you. Please reply to
(drbassydesmond@yahoo.co.uk)

Regards,

Dr.Bassy Desmond.


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