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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "PAUL OBIEZE" <paulobieze@ny.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: paulobieze@myway.com
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:56:04 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION:

I am extending this proposal to you in my capacity as personal assistance to the governor of Bayelsa State and in full agreement with the Governor himself his excellency Governor Dipriye Alamesia. I have in my present possesion the sum of $65million US Dollars. This is a fund that has been set outside to fund the runing of the next election coming up in 2007 which he intends to run as a senator with the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but we wanted to secretly open a foreign account in london and lodge the money into, pending when the time for the election comes. But the move was made and unfornately our governor was caught and he is still in the custody of the british government the money was seized as the code of public bereau in Nigeria do not allow public office holder to own a foreign account. Right now the sum of 1million british pound has been seized by the british government which was about to be logded into an account in the united kingdom. Now I have giv!
en instruction to have it transfer outside the shores of our company into a very safe account of any of your choice. Let me make this clear to you that this is 100% legal and risk free and we have maped out a strategy to have all these acheived.

We have a company here in the Niger Delta called Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas it came into full working capacity during the inception of current civilian dispensation at a working/asset capacity of USD3Billion so what we will do is to make some necessary documentation that a contract was awarded to you by this government to have some contract executed so with the help of our insider with the above mentioned company we can acheive this.

As top civil servant, we are not authorized to operate foreign bank account hence our decision to use your account on full trust and confidence to transfer this money outside Nigeria. We have accepted you as our foreign partner and will regularize the approvals to reflect you as the true beneficiary of the contract Sum USD65M(Sixty-Five Million U.S.Dollars Only). Moreover, it is pertinent to note that it is not risk and does not required much engagements since we have taken care of the deal in full capacity. We have resolved to give you 50% of the total sum for your assistance. Apex Bank of Nigeria under contract number (NLNG/FGN/FMF/CBN/C987/01.)

If you are interested in this deal, please contact me immediately you receive this message through my direct email (paulobieze@myway.com ) for more lively informations I am anxiously waiting for your response with hope that you understand the confidential nature of this transfer.


PAUL OBIEZE

THIS IS A PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION this e-mail and any attached files are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other Dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited.


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