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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: "PETER L DONALD" <peterdonald22@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:27:30 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY AND ITS CONFIDENTIAL

Good Day Sir/Mar.

I am Mr Peter L.Donald the personal accountant to the late first lady Mrs
Stela Obasanjo (THE WIFE TO THE PRESEIDENT OF NIGERIA)she died i SPAIN on
sunday morning been 23RD OF OCTOBER 2005 when she went for a MEDICAL
SURGERY, though she was buaried on the 28th been friday 2005, and we realy
ned to make every thing done befor the government start looking into any
thing she has.

Please this is a very urgent email, so please read it very well and
understand it befor you reply back to me, this is the holl story about this
transfer, the late first lady of NIGERIA, Mrs Stela Obansanjo, have a
private account with OMACK INTERNATIONAL BANK OF NIG PLC, and she kept it
secret from the husband the PRESIDENT, because she wanted to use it in a
transaction out side the country, her private attoney and i her private
accountant are the only people who knows about the fund that was deposited
in OMACK INTERNATIONAL BANK OF NIG PLC. the fund was deposited in a
defferent name not on her name, and why she did it like that was because of
the (EFCC) economic and financial crime commission, not to suspect her
movement.

To let you know she was surpose to transfer the fund into her private
account in spain befor she deid, though i was incharge of making sure that
the fund should be transfered befor friday been the 21st october 2005, befor
she went for the surgery which took her away from the earth to another
world, so that is the problem now, if we should keep this fund for more time
in the country the (EFCC) economic and financial crime commission, will know
about it, that is the problem now.

NOW, all i want you to do now is to stand as the rigth owner to the said
fund that is under the care of OMACK INTERNATIONAL BANK OF NIG PLC. then you
will contact the bank as the owner, which the bank manager will then tell
you to contact them back with all the nessecary documents that you use to
deposite the fund in their custody ( INTO THEIR BANK). then her private
laywer will prepare the documents for you with your name as the owner of the
the deposited fund that is under their bank for save purpose.
so as for the name and account number that she use to open the account and
deposited the fund in the bank, if you are interested in transacting this
transaction with us, i will send them to you; and the amount of the said
fund that is in the bank is $10,000,000,00 (ten million united state
dollars). so as for the percentages that will giude this transaction i and
the private laywer have said that we will give you 30% of the fund, then
70% will be for both of us,

and please to let you know all we need from you is for you to stand as the
owner of the fund, please note that you will not send any up front fee that
we will use to prepare the documents, we will handle that by our self, is
that clear, so if you are interested to transact with us we will need these
information for propare clerification about your self,

1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Draw Number above:
12.Annual income:

so once we have all these, her personal attoney will prepare the documents
with your name and your contact address, and send it to you, after that we
will you the contact of the bank(OMACK INTERNATIONAL BANK OF NIG PLC)
Manager who will ask for the documents and then transfer the fund into your
private account where you know it will be save, then i will come to your
house with the address to collect our own share of the fund from you, so
that is all,

if you are interested in the transaction reply back imidiately to this

alternative email address; peterldonald22@yahoo.com.

thanks,
mr peter l. donal,
private accountant.


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