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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: kenny kanma <musa_kanma@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:10:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ATTENSION



APPLICATION FOR ENQUIRY

I am Alhaji MUSA KANMA, the chief General Marketing manager Wilbros Construction Ltd.I begot your contact in the world book encyclopedia. The reason is that I really wanted to certfy myself properly before proceeding my contact .



Moreover, I needed a trust and reliable person that can attain a perfect transaction with me. For as much as I am convinced with my spirit,I amconscientously competent with you.


As the Chief General Marketing Manager of the afformentioned company,a contract sum of $200,000000 Million contracted from Nigeria National Petroleum Coporation(N.N.P.C) which I oversigned to be $250,000000million having an excess sum of $50,000000million was saved in Intercontinental Bank (C.B.N) .

Moreover, this contract job of this magnitude has been rounded up perfectly since last three months. Remaining sum as the over-invoice,to be used for my private investment abroad is in domiciary account. I need a foreigner who will come as a foreign contractor who supplied us with neccessary materials used for the that contract job, demanding for your due job payment.

The documents backing this fund would be provided and would be sent to you in due time for the remitance into your private account.

As I told you earlier on, we are going to invest this fund into a construction company in your country which you will head as a general manager.

I will only give you %15 of the total sum just for your effort and input. Send your account information, home address, phone number and fax number. This transaction can take ten days to complete.

Thanks. for your co-operation.

Alhaji Usman M. Fodio

( Chief General marketing Manager WCL )





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