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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "john azibah" <john_azibah48@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:04:51 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY.

Dear friend,

YOUR PARTNERSHIP IS NEEDED.

I am Mr.John Azibah,the personal accounts manager to Christian Eich Mason, a
deceased Immigrant, and a carmaker magnate with BMW, who was based here in
Nigeria. Sadly on the 25th of July 2000, our customer, his wife and their
two Children died in the Air France concorde plane crash bound for New York
in their travel for holidays.

Before this unfortunate incident,our customer deposited the sum of of
Eighteen Million United States Dollars in a fixed account in my bank,the
EXPRESS MERCHANT BANK NIG.LTD,also based here in Lagos-Nigeria. I have
contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money and some property left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared null by my bank
particularly, as the bank has issued out several reports of this through the
foreign embassies here to try to locate any of his relative or business
associate or have the account confiscated within a short period of time from
now. My my bank has decided that the final date of the confiscation will be
on the 30th of January this year. I now urgently seek your consent to allow
me present your names as the beneficiary to the funds.I have intended to
present you as his business associate, so that the deposited amount
mentioned above will be transferred to you to avoid the confiscation order.

I have decided that we share this money on conclusion of this business as
follows: 40% to you as your interest for this assistance and 50% for me and
the remaining 10% will be set aside to cover any eventual expenses that
might arise during the claim. I have all the necessary information that can
be used to back up this claim in your name/favour for easy claims as my bank
will honour this request on your immediately show of interest. All I require
from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through
within the next 10 banking days. I guarantee that this will be executed
under a purely legitimate arrangement that will protect all concerned from
any breach of the law since I am involved in the business.

Please reply urgently if you are interested in this proposal.I assure you
that this is 100% legal and risk-free.You should also endeavour to send me
your names in complete, your mailing address and your telephone numbers to
enable me forward to you, the deposit paper and other important details we
need in order to make this claim smooth and quick because of time schedule.

For purposes of confidentiality,you should please endeavour to send your
response to my private email address contact:{ john_azibah10@yahoo.co.uk
},for proof document and for further details.

Your sincerely,

MR.JOHN AZIBAH.{Officer}.
FOREIGN ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT;
EXPRESS MERCHANT BANK NIG.LTD,
EMB PLAZA,IKEJA,LAGOS-NIGERIA.

Reference File: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm


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