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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: "BENJAMIN COLE" <bencole1000@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: benlcocole@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 18:03:18 +0200
Subject: MY PERSON OUR ARE YOU?

Hello my dear person,
i'm Mr.Benjamin cole am senior accountant to african development bank in senegal.my reason of passing this
information to you is just about business that i believe that it we bring both of us to a very wealthy person
in life.Why am inviting you to this deal,not that i can'tdo it alone but because the bank we not allow me
to herite the money for that i decided to look for a foreigner to stand as the man foreign beneficiary .
Because this point that i send to you is the may weel of the man in his deposit file .My dear if real
that you're serious to run this deal with me this is the detail,why i was eyes red to shift this money to our
concern.Is that the law guilding the deposit of this very man is that after he ran away from his own country
to senegal for exile he now make this deposit for the country to secure the money for him for that because
he is a very bad condiction within him his country home and there is no way that they can drove him away
the bank now give him condiction to handle the money for him and after five years of not withdrow it the bank we benefited the money
by the government.And he make the sign since of depositing this very money was in october 2001 which the bank had from him
since 2002.Since then no information about this very man and bank were now making surgestion how to handle the money into
the country purse.after holding conferance about there customers that were not been seen by them for long and no information
concerning them.It was the month of june that they hold the conferance this very year and the expired time for waiting this very man was fixed for the man to come and make withdrow is december this very year of 2006.For this reason the file guilding the deposit
were now be secured out by me for some time ago.I now wrote to you to stand as the foreign beneficiary to Alahji Momo Sheriff of sudan .
He was a sudanese but after his problem with his country he now ran away to exile in senegal were he make this deposit of money.
The amount was seventeen million five hundred thausand USA dollar($17,500,000;00).For that i want you to present like you know the man before.
I we send the following file of document that guild the money to you after i receive your reply.And i we still always try to pass you all
the following information. After we have surcided percentage of each of us we be 60% to 40% which i believe that it we be fine for your benefit.
This is my email address please reply to it bencole1000@yahoo.ca <mailto:bencole1000@yahoo.ca> is private email to me.
Goodbye waiting to read from you urgently.
Sincerely,
Mr Ben cole




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