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: "Mr.Roland Wessel." <roland_wessel_uk@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:40:46 +0200
Subject: STAR ENERGY GROUP PLC

Dear Partner
Top of the day to you.
Let me crave your indulgence to introduce myself to
you, I am Roland Wessel president/founder of STAR
ENERGY GROUP PLC, we are OPEC members who deal on
crude oil and raw material and export into the
Canada/America and Europe and Asia.I will want to
solicit for your assistance to helpcollect a cheque
that is due for payment to me for services and
supplies i rendered.
Please if you are willing to assist, i will want you
to furnish me with your particulars, so as to enable
me give you further details. Please, you have to be an
honest and trusted person, as more payments will be
made through you in the course of this transaction.And
more so you will be entitled to 10% of every payment
that you are able to receive for us from our
customers.
Please contact us for more information via email
( roland _wessel_uk@yahoo.co.uk )

with the below in formations
filled out.
NAME: ............................
MAILING ADDRESS:....................
AGE: ..............................
STATUS:............................
STATE/COUNTRY:......................
TEL/FAX NUMBERS:....................
CELL PHONE:.........................
COMPANY NAME: .....................
OCCUPATION: .......................
NAME OF YOUR BANK:..................
We look forward in working with you.
Kindest Regards
Mr.Roland Wessel.
Chief Executive Officer
Star Energy Group plc
Tel: +34679257033

Email:( roland_wessel_uk@yahoo.co.uk)


Anti-fraud resources: