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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: ahlaji muharmid <ahlaji_muharmid@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:17:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: urgently reply needed from you


Dear Sir,

I request for urgent business relationship may I through this medium seek for your cooperation and assistance in a business that requires high confidentiality.

I am a senior civil servant with the below named
corporation and was opportune to head a contract
award committee of the corporation (NNPC) some time
ago in the course of my assignment, I with the consent of my other colleagues on the board inflated a contract awarded to a foreign contractor, to the tune of us$48,500,000.00 (forty eight million, five hundred The foreign contractor has long completed the contract and has since been paid his contract sum leaving the balance of thirty five million, five hundred thousand United States dollars floating in my corporation’s account with the government.

I am hereby requesting your assistance and cooperation to enable us remit this money into any foreign bank account of yours, while the said account must be such that we will not have any difficulties getting back our own share of the fund the nature of your present business or occupation does not matter.

I am therefore asking you to provide me through this confidential email address all necessary things we assistance and cooperation, you will be entitled to 20% of the total amount, 10% will be used to pay back all expenses which will be incurred in the course of this transaction, while the balance of 70% will be for I and my colleagues.
One of whom will come over to your country as soon as arrangement based on your advice, on how to
invest/repay the fund into account that will be opened in our names.

please be informed that all necessary logistics
arrangements has been concluded to enable the transfer of the money into your account within (14) fourteen working days of receiving the above requested account information from you; we are also assuring you that this transaction is 100% risk-free.

Waiting for your urgent response.

Thanks and god bless.

Yours faithfully,

DR. AHLAJI AKU

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