joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
 Free trial for 30 days
   jwSpamSpy
Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

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

Fraud email example:

From: alex smith <alex_smith018@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 11:34:16 -0500
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE.


Name : Alex Smith
Address:London
E-mail address: alex_smith018@yahoo.com.hk

Compliment Dear,

Do you know late Dr. Jonathan Mann once a human right activist on HIV/AIDS who died with his family in Swissair crash in 1998? The CNN webpage below will tell you more about my client anyway;

http://www.cnn.com/health/9809/03/dr.mann.profile

I was his personal accountant while I was working with Barclays bank Plc here in London, United Kingdom.

My proposition to you is to seek your aid in partnership to present you as the next-of-kin of my late client, so that BARCLAYS BANK will pay you the sum of THIRTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS into any bank account you are going to provide. Then we will share the US$30 Milion on a mutual agreed-fifty/ fifty percent to enable me use part of my own share to carry out my wife kidney transplanting surgery operation. This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

How ever, if you are willing to save my wife soul kindly get back to me ASAP to enable me give you the details/ operational method on how to proceed with this project. The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after so many years, the money will be transferred into the british royal government treasury bill as unclaimed fund. I agree that 50% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account and 50% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated, Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your designated bank account ,you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application for claim that I will send to you, so I will like you to send to me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you a TEXT OF APPLICATION FOR CLAIM which you will send to barclays bank to enable them transfer the $30Million united states dollars into your bank account.

I wait to hear from you.

PLEASE REPLY ME BACK THROUGH MY SECURED EMAIL ADDRESS: alex_smith018@yahoo.com.hk I repeat alex_smith018@yahoo.com.hk


Yours,
Mr. Alex Smith.

NOTE: PLEASE KEEP THIS BUSINESS SECRETS TO YOUR SELF ALONE AND REMEMBER TO REPLY ME BACK WITH YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER.

Anti-fraud resources: