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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: "Kenn Clarke" <kenn_clarke@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ckenn@k.ro
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:40:38 +0000
Subject: Overseas partnership

Dear sir,

The purpose of this letter is to briefly introduce
myself and intimate you with a joint overseas project interest which I
believe would be of interest to you.Though email has been greatly abused, I
choose to communicate with you via email since, it remains the
fastest,surest medium of communication.This correspondence, is unofficial
and private. My name is Mr Kenneth Clark,I work in executive capacity with
CARGO FIELD SECURITIES AND FINANCE (ltd) Mauritius. I joined the services of
this company in 1983. I decided to contact you believing that you will
become my Business Partner in acquiring an investment of $5.5M placed under
our management more than seven (7) years ago.

I have worked with this company for over 20 years,The Management and the
Legal department of CARGO FIELD,in a recent meeting Recommended that the
account of clients over seven years should be declared Dormant according to
financial laws.Even Incident that befall the UNITED KINGDOM recently,the
bank is still unrelenting in it's bid to contact any of the relatives to
claim this money

Cargo Field Securities instituted an investigations to determine who should
have right to claim the estate. This investigation has been unfruitful.
Since the inception of the year 2004,CARGO FIELD SECURITIES AND TRUST (ltd)
Management changed the procedure of claiming of consignments. Once you are
able to produce all the information as contained in the file of the company
as regard the deposits, it will be released to you upon demand.

>From our records, more than 70 consignments and deposits belonging to these
people has been claimed in the past six months.Based on the failure of this
investigation I decided to seek a foreign contact who will therefore play
the role of a next of kin to the deceased and this is why I am seeking your
co-operation and assistance to help execute this pending deal which has been
unclaimed for so long as I know no one will ever come forward to claim it
because the deceased left no next of kin. The amount in question is very
small compared to what my office has sent overseas for this people through
our overseas correspondent security company. I will provide all the
documents needed for this purpose as I was the account officer in-charge of
this particular transaction.

conclusively,For the release of the consignment, Our Overseas correspondent
will demand for some documents and the security code of the consignment, you
will call on me to supply you with every detailed Information as regard the
payment release.

I hope to hear from you to enable me provide you with the complete picture
of this deal.

Mr Kenneth Clark.


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