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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: "Mr Oumar Toure" <outou201@msn.com>
Reply-To: outou2o1@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:11:06 +0000
Subject: BUSINES OPPORTUNITY REPLY URGENTLY.

From: Mr.Oumar Toure,
The Manager of Auditing Dept.
African Development Bank {ADB}. Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.
My Private Telephone +22676694986.

Dear Partner,

Good day and how are you doing with your family? Hope fine.

Please let this message do not be a surprise to you because i got your
contact information and lay all the trust in you before i decided to
disclose this confidential and successful transaction to you.
I am the MANAGER OF AUDITING DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to contact
you over this financial transaction worth the sum of NINE MILLION,THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($9,300,000.00 ) for our present
future success.This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our bank
foreign customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash
disaster on 25th Oct 2002.Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the
deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of
2001-2004 in other to submit to the entire bank management for an official
re-documentation.

Be obviously informed that it was stated in our BANKING POLICY and signed
lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of FOUR(4)
years started counting from the date when the beneficiary died, the money
will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund.Besides, it
is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA FASO
to make the claim of the fund.So the request of you as a foreigner is
necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your
reliable bank account as the EXTENDED RELATION BEING THE NEXT OF KIN to the
deceased.

Note that when the fund is transferred into your account, Thirty Five
Percent (35%) will be for you in respect of all your assistance for the
transfer of the fund into your account and provision of the bank account
where the bank will remit the fund into,Fifty Five Percent (55%) will be for
me as the rest Ten Percent(10%) will be shared to Charity Organisations
Centers, Motherless Babies Homes, and helpless people that surrounded us
around the World.

If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and confidentiality,
and accept not to cheat, betray or disappoint me after this when the fund is
transferred into your account, reply for the
re-assurance with your telephone and fax numbers necessary for effective
communication. As soon as you reply , call me through my private telephone
number on (0022676694986 so that i will let you know the steps and
procedures to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.

I expect your urgent communication.
My best regrads to you and your family,
Mr.Oumar Toure


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