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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: "Kelly Eke" <kellyeke@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kelly_eke@myway.com
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:32:08 -0700
Subject: VERY PRIVATE







KELLY EKE
270 VAN OSTADESTRAAT
1073TV
AMSTERDAM.


Attention:

I am Mr.Kelly Eke a citizen of the Netherlands and I am 43years of age. I am
married with three kids; I work with Interdiplomatic Security B. V.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands Iam the accounting officer of Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his
wife and only daughter.

You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.


http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list


Te Late Mr. Morris Thompson who was our Client with Deposit number IDS
467699 has left the sum of Twenty Million one Hundred and Twenty Thousand
Dollars
(US$20,120.000.00)


Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the
funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as
unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such
money remained after five years the money will be transferred into banking
treasury as unclaimed funds.

We agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me and my colleagues.
If you are interested in this transaction please fill the requested personal
data below and return to me to enable me open an online account on your
behalf.

PERSONAL DATA
Title:
First Name:
Last Name
Company Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Country:
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:
Address
Date of Birth:
Nationality:
Next of Kin:
Occupation:
Income Range

The court affidavit and change of beneficiary and all relevant information
will be given to you, when you contact me on my private email address as
stated below. Let me seize this opportunity to inform you that no risk is
attached.

Treat with utmost confidentiality and please reply to kelly_eke@myway.com

Yours sincerely,
Kelly Eke.


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