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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: "wabara james" <wabarajames02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: wabarajames2@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:41:59 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam

Dear Sir/Madam
I am JAMES WABARA senior branch Manager of Union Bank Plc in Abuja Nigeria
Iam contacting you to assist in the claim of some outstanding sum of money
which was left by one of my very good clients who died in a AF4590 plane
crash on his way to america after he left nigeria to see his family in
germany.

This client Christian Eich was an engineer with one of the foremost
construction firms here in Nigeria Dantata Sawoe at Abuja. He left no known
next of kin and all
our attempts to trace someone related to him to whom we could pay the money
have met a dead end have now personally decided to contact you to stand on
behalf of the family so I can present you as his next of kin using my
influence as a senior Manager of this bank

We shall engage a Law firm to process and notarize all the necessary
documents and letter of Probate administration in your favor in order for
the transfer to take place A bank account in any part of the world which you
will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the
beneficiary/next-of-kin This way the money can
be paid to your account 30% will be for you while 70% will be for me

There is no risk in this project at all as all the paperwork for this
transaction will be done by the Attorneys and my position as a chief
executive officer guarantees the successful execution of this
transaction.contact me immediately if you are interested so that the claim
can take place immediatelyThe amount involved is USD10.3 million (Ten
million three hundred thousand United States Dollars) which is the
account balance.
You can view the website for more details on the death of the man

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I look forward to hearing from you asap
Yours faithfully
James Wabara


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