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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: "GANI COLLINS" <ganicollins@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:23:14 +0000
Subject: MR GANI COLLINS





From: MR GANI COLLINS (General Manager).
Union Bank of Nig Plc.
42 Agege Road Lagos-Nigeria


Attention Please,


I am pleased to introduce myself to you. My name is MR GANI COLLINS a native
of Nigeria and the General Manager of the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Lagos ?
Nigeria .
I am contacting you in regards to a business transaction of the sum of
money from a deceased account (DR. DAVID VAN BUSKIRK), who was a business
man to Pacific Coast Oil Company, Lagos- Nigeria. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of this business
transaction by the special grace of almighty God believing that you can
never let me down either now and after you have receive the money.
I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction because I am
the General manager of said bank specify above. I am contacting you because
of the need to involve a foreign account as the real beneficiary. I need
your full co-operation, Trust and Honest to make this work successful,
because the management is ready to approve this payment to any
foreigner who has the correct information to our late customer.
I will use my position and influence on other staffs to effect the legal
approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate
clearance from foreign payment department. With assurance that this money
will intact pending my physical arrival in your country for the sharing
and other investment.



PROPOSITION;

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten Million Five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our customers (DR. DAVID VAN BUSKIRK), a Foreigner, who died along with the
passagers and crew aboard Egypt air flight 990, which crashed into the
atlantic ocean on October 31, 1999 with his lovely wife (MRS.
BETTY VAN BUSKIRK) and his entire family. Since his death, none of his
next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the
heir. Please, you can confirm through;

http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html
We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for
claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you
stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be
carefully worked out by us for the funds (US$10,500,000.00) to be released
in your favor as the beneficiary's next of kin.

It may interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an order
of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries. Please, acknowledge the
receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by
furnishing me with the following through my above email address;

1. Your full names, address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the appropriate
departments for necessary approvals in your favor before the transfer can be
made and this take place after my conversation with you on telephone. We
shall be compensating you with 25% of the total money on final conclusion of
this project while the rest shall be for me and my staff. If this proposal
is acceptable by you, do not take undue dvantage of the trust i have
bestowed in you. I await your urgent response and note that you are the only
person I have contacted only you for now and any delay will make me to
contact another person for the same transaction.
May God bless us, Amen?

Your sincerely,
MR GANI COLLINS
Union Bank of Nig Plc.
__________________________________________________



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