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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "yuri lioudmila" <yuri_lioudmila@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:22:22 +0000
Subject: HELLO

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
I am MRS. YURI LIOUDMILA, a personal secretary 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 $365M (Three
Hundred and Sixty Five Million United States Dollars) for us.

My Boss 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 reelected On March 14,
2004. You can catch more of the story on this
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
The fund ($365M) 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 my boss name (Mikhail
Khodorkovsky) 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 which the payee bank will need
to transfer the sum to you. We have decided (Myself and the
accountant) 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?
Please Note, that you are to accept only the amount which
your company or personal account can receive in order to
avoid suspicion, however, not more than $45 Million can be
approved at a time hence you are able to accommodate more
than this amount.

As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will give you
more details. Thank you very much. Please send your reply to:
y_lioudmila@yahoo.co.uk for confidential reasons.

Regards
MRS. YURI LIOUDMILA.

 

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