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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: "Attah Bukari" <attamehab10@msn.com>
Reply-To: attameh@o2.pl
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:27:07 +0000
Subject: ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT

Dear Friend,


Please do not be surprised on receiving this email. Though we might not have
a personal relationship or have met each other, we could work together on
this project I am about to introduce to you.

I would be very glad if you can be my foreign guarantor to assist me claim
us$5m that deposited by my late father with a security company. This funds
is sealed airtight in a silver aluminium boxes. My father's didn't
registered the contents of this boxes as funds, he registered it as his
family treasury bill for many security reasons. I am the next of kin to my
late father vault account. I contacted the security company for the claim of
my late father's deposited boxes but due to my underage {26 years old}, the
security company are demanded for my guarantor that will claim the boxes for
me to avoid any future controversy because my father's registered that I
should clock 30 years upword before having access or right to withdraw this
boxes. Now what I need from you is to send me your full name, contact
address, personal telephone number so that I can put in an application
letter with this your information and forawrd to the security company as my
foreign guarantor. I will change the new ownership certificate to your name
so that we can have a power of attorney to athourize the security company to
let me withdraw one of the box that valued us$3m here so that I can take
the box to a reputable bank here and transfer it to your foreign account. If
I have access to the box, I will open an account here in your name and
deposited the funds before onward transfer to your final account in your
country. While transfering the funds we are going to obtain all the
necessary certificates/documents that will proved to your bank and country
that the source of this funds in genuine. This transaction is 100% safe and
risk-free. After you might have transfer the first box that valued us$3m,
you will now believed and have 100% trust and hope in me for us to transfer
the second box. You can also come forward so that we start the transaction
together, seen is believing. I want you to keep this transaction
confidentially, because no head that want another head to be greater than
him/her and if they see that this is an opportunity that will make you be
greater than them.

I will be waiting to hear from you soon so that I can tell you what next to
do. I will also send you a deposit certificate for your verifications.
Please reply me through this my confidential e-mail address attameh@o2.pl
for many security reasons.

Best Regards,

Attah Seidu Bukari.


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