fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
Click here to report a problem with this page.
Fraud email example:
From: Nelson Williams <nelw_55@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:24:22 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: YOU MAIL ME BACK
Hello,
I am Barrister Nelson Williams a solicitor at law.I am the
personal attorney to late Mr HENS SMART, who was an
official contractor(category
A)with an oil company,(Mobil Producing Unlimited) in
Togo. Here in after shall be referred to as my
client.
On the 10th of May 2002, my client, his wife and their
only son were involved in a car accident along Ibadan
express road. All occupants of the vehicle
unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made
several enquiries and presentations to embassies to
locate any of my client's extended
relatives, this has also proved abortive.It is after
these several unsuccessful
attempts to locate any member of his family failed
that I decided to contact .
You can invariably be of help in this situation to
stands as the next of
kin to this my client.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the
money and property left behind by my client before
they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
bank where this huge deposit were lodged.
Already, the finance company where the deceased had an
account valued at about US$6.5 million dollars has
issued me a notice/ultimatum to provide the next of
kin or have the account will be confiscated in the
next one month .
Since It has been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that
the proceeds of this account valued at US$6.5 million
dollars can be paid to your account and there after we
can share (money)in the ratio of 7:3. That is, I will
have 70% of the proceed while you have 30% for for
your assistance.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used
to back up any claim we may make. All I require is
your honest co-operation to enable us see this
transaction through .I guarantee that this will be
executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me by my email and send to me
your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss
further about this transaction.
Best regards,
Nelson
---------------------------------
How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
Anti-fraud resources: