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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: "Centrale office" <centraleoffice77@msn.com>
Reply-To: centraleoffice@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:28:13 +0000
Subject: FROM JONNY .C .CATT. CITIBANK, LONDON

Dear friend,

My name is Mr. jonny. c .catt, a Chief Auditor to the Citibank Group.
During my last auditing at this Bank (Citibank London), we realized the
sum 11.2million Pounds owned by one Engr.Dennis McGrann who was in the
American Airlines Flight 11, Boston to Los Angeles, that crashed into
World Trade Center during the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
All efforts to reach the relatives of Engr.Dennis McGrann for the past
years have not yielded any positive result.In the last Board Meeting,
the Directors jointly decided that Engr.Dennis McGrann's Money should be
included in the annual profit for the year 2004.This is the debate
going on at the moment with different opinions from the Directors of this
Bank.



Since Mrs. Chesney was the one who introduced Engr.Dennis McGrann to
the bank, she objected to this decision and demanded that the fund remains
floating in the treasury for another one year to see if we could actually
get any of the relatives of Engr.Dennis McGrann to claim the money.
This is the main reason why I am contacting you. I will like you to help
us in claiming the money from the Citibank here in London as Mr.
Engr.Dennis McGrann's Next-of-Kin. The Code System Information for your
application will be giving to you. Any information about this is in
Mrs. Chesney's possession but she does not want any person to know about
this arrangement please.



We have first time information that the deceased has no relation since
they all died in the 9-11 attack. I and Mrs. Chesney are willing to
share the Money with you on a 20% to you and 75% percent for us while 5%
is set for any expenses incurred in the cost of the arrangement of the
transfer to your account. All I need you to do is to put up claims as
Next-of-Kin to Engr.Dennis McGrann, I will send all the documents to you.
Once this is done, the Legal and Accounting Departments
will have the fund processed and wired to your Account,
then we can meet to share the money together.



Please I want you to keep this information very Confidential as the exposure
ofthis information jeopardise my job. If you are not willing to take
part,then I will beg you to disregard the information. Let me have your
responseas soon as possible.I look forward to hearing from you soon.



Thank you and God bless you.



Much Regards



Mr. jonny. c .catt.


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