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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: "bari_steers" <bari_steers@terra.com.mx>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:50:41 -0600
Subject: (ATTNTION DEAR SIR/MADAM)



>From barrister lary house
Industriel Quartier des Elites,
Cotonou-Benin Republic.
Tel; (+ 229)-93-46-88-01)

Dear Sir/Madam

You may be surprised to receive this letter from me. I got your
information through an international web directory while I was searching for a reliable successfully person to stand for my deceased client (ALEXANDRA)

I will introduce myself to you, I am a private attorney to Late (ALEXANDRA) a nationality of your country who is one of a leading imports of all kind Food for A Refuge's in Africa, he has been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer For a long time now It has defiled all forms of medical treatment

your hereby notify that (ALEXANDRA) is dead since then I
have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives After these I decided to track His last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his Family to introduce everything about his property to them,I contacted you now to stand as a nest of kin of his property’s

Your assistant is needed in the money left behind by my client before
he get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank. These huge
deposits were lodged particularly, with the "Continental Bank Benin in
west cost where the Deceased had an account valued at about $14.5 million dollars (fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated.

Since I have unsuccessful in Locating you as a relatives I seek your
consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since your
disem conutry with him so that the proceeds of this account valued at $14.5 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can Share the money 50% of this money will be for you while 50% will be for me, with my power hear as an attorney. I will procure all Necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this Deal through.

And the way we are going to achieve this is I will need the following
information from you, Your Full Name and Address, Your Age, Occupation and Position, Your Telephone Mobile and Fax Number for Communication Purpose. But then I need a guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that you will protect this money after you have received in your on private account

if your capability is okay to handle this transactions then your
contact with me immediately, again I advising you as a learned practitioner in legal system for many years to keep this process confidentially until you confirm this money in your country account unconditionally

Thanks for your co-operations
Cal me for more information’s
Tell; + 229-93-46-88-01
Regards,
Barrister Lary House

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