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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: ROYAL BRIDGE <royalbridgecompany@yahoo.ca>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:54:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Official


Dear Sir,

I am very happy writting you as I a-foresee a long-lasting business relationship together with you and your company. I am Nana Ankrah, former worker with Ghana Cocoa board, but now am into my own private business together with (2) of my colleagues as we came across the fund on over-invoiced purchase made by some American company that brought multi-million Cocoa for their business which the contract was executed for the period of (5) years.

I have to leave my job as been arranged together with my other colleagues, so that we could find a way of having this funds of £5.6M place into a viable and profitable investment abroard, that is why we need your service and assistances in having this funds in place into your foreign bank account for investment purpose as we have gone through your companies profile and agreed together with my colleagues to do business with you and your company.

We have already finalized all arrangements with our legal representative whom is dealing with the Bankers directly on our behalf as all our detailed in-formations have been given to him and he will also be contacting you for the process of having the funds transferred to your foreign Bank account for our investment purpose together.

I and my colleagues have deliberated and agreed to map out 20% of the total fund for your assistances and 80% for me and my colleagues for our investment purpose together with you, as we intend to make you solely the proxy holder of the funds for our entire investment mission together with you. Well I know we still need to know each other more toward the successfulness of this risk-free business transaction.

Thanks as I am waiting your urgent responses and also your telephone call as I will also try to place a call across to you for more mutual trust and proper understanding.

With best regards,
Your truly
Kodjo Ankrah

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