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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 Okocha" <peter_okocha8@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:51:40 -0700
Subject: request (VEEN)

MR.PETER OKOCHA
Account OFFICIAL OF INTER-CONTINENTAL BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
Email; peter.okocha@email.ro

Dear VEEN,

My name is MR.PETER OKOCHA I work in the credit and accounts
department of Inter-continental Bank of Nigeria Plc,Lagos, Nigeria. I
write you in respect of a foreign customer with our bank, before
his sudden death.

His name is Mr.MARK VEEN, He was among those who died in a plane
crash here in Nigeria in the year 2002 May 4th. Sir,since the
demise of this our customer, Mr.MARK VEEN who was an oil
erchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit
records and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the
money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer.

He had only $9.5mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is
only an insider that could produce the code or password of the
Deposit particulars.

As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce
the needed information other than my very self considering my
position in the bank as his account officer.Based on the reason
that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of
kin,I hereby ask for your cooperation in using your name as the
next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign
offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At
this point I am the only one with the information because I have
removed the deposit file from the safe.

By this doing,what is required of you is to send an application
laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the deceased
officially to the director of our bank.

I will need your full name and address,telephone and fax number
for the processing of the transfer in your name and favour.
Finally i want you to understand that the request for a
foreigneras the next of kin is Occassioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a Nigerian
cannot represent as next of kin. When you contact me,then we
shall discuss on how the money will be split between us.


I will direct you on how to apply for the claims of this money.
Please if you are interested and capable to carry out this deal
with me, reply through this -mail(peter.okocha@email.ro)

Trusting to hear from you,
I remain Respectfully yours,
MR.PETER OKOCHA

PLS REPLY BACK TO peter.okocha@email.ro
PLS REPLY BACK TO peter.okocha@email.ro


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