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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: "Pnjoyan Khoren" <pnjoyankhoren004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: pnjoyankhoren@sify.com
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:11:46 +0000
Subject: From the Personal PC of "Barr" Pnjoyan

Kindest attention,

I am Pnjoyan Khoren, Personal/ Corporate Legal Adviser to Mikhail
Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies:
Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep
SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with its branches all over
the world). I seek your partnership to accommodate the sum US$45M (Forty
five Million United States Dollars) for us.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky got arrested for his involvement on politics in
financing the leading and opposing political parties (the Union of Right
Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party
led by Gregor Yavlinsky) which posed treat to President Vladimir Putin
second tenure as Russian president before he was re-elected On March 14,
2004.
Visit the following site for detail:

http://www.mosnews.com/mn-files/khodorkovsky.shtml
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/29/mbkhnewcharge.shtml
The fund (US$45M) in question was approved by the Government of Russia for
payment of various YUKOS OIL contractors/suppliers to prevent them from
loosing the money they invested in the numerous contracts they executed for
the above firm. The Government had already concluded plans to frozen all the
accounts in Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s name both corporate and personal before I
connived with the Accountant General of YUKOS OIL (who is also my partner in
this transaction) to raise a memo stating that YUKOS OIL owe contractors the
above amount which was finally approved for payment after some
deliberations. Actually, we have paid all our contractors both local and
foreign because they agitated for their payment when they had that my boss
was arrested.
YOUR ROLE:

I will present you / your company as one of the contractors we are owing so
that you can stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum or PART of the
fund according to your financial strength or the strength of your company. I
will arrange for the documentation that the payee bank will need to transfer
the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to relocate to American
continent and never to be connected to any of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded before as soon as
possible. You will be rewarded with 10% of the total sum for your
partnership. Can you be my partner on this?
As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will give you more details.
Thank you very much. Please send your reply to pnjoyankhoren@sify.com for
confidential reasons.
Best regards.

Pnjoyan Khoren.


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