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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: c_martinsabsa@ananzi.co.za
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:23:12 +0200
Subject: My Greeting.

MR. CALEB MARTINS
160 Main Street, JHB. Gauteng 2000 South Africa.
Telephone: +27 726 344148


HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
Greetings,
This message may come to you as a surprise but, l plead to you to patiently read through it before making a decision whether to assist me or not. l wish to solicit for your assistance in the transaction which l strongly believe will be of mutual benefit to both of us. l know that it will be a surprise to receive such a message to an unknown person. l got your information when l am searching for a reliable trustworthy person whom l can do business with, from your country Trade journal index under the South African Chambers of Commerce.
What this transaction required is sincere, confidential and trustworthiness. Before l go further l must tell you that your participation will not by any means been implication during or after the transferred is made.

My name is Mr. Caleb Martins , I am a Auditing manager of one of the commercial bank (ABSA) in Johannesburg South Africa. Me and two of my colleagues has wish to seek your assistance in the transferring some money to your nominated account abroad for an investment. This money was deposited in a fixed deposit account in my bank by an American nationality six years ago. The length of time for the maturity of the fixed deposit was five years which expired towards the ending of last year, incidentally Mr. Jeff Garner, who was the beneficiary died in the September 11th bombing of the World Trade Center in America, and he left nobody as next-of-kin to claim this money. All efforts made to trace any known relations of his proved abortive, and no one has written our bank in this regard. All modalities for the successful transfer of this money into an offshore bank account have been put in place and we are looking for a trust worthy foreign partner into whose bank account this fund would be remitted to and it is thi
s regard that my colleagues have mandated me to provide a partner who will assist us. We have agreed to compensate you with 30% (Thirty percent) of the total amount if you should accept to assist us.

For your awareness, l will delegate a legal practitioner from our law firm to the Department of Finance in accordance with standard practice procedure to ascertain and verify the genuineness and validity of the claim to this money. We also have ascertained the existence of the money with our bank for years now, valued sum of US$10,500,000 ( Ten Million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) Only. lf you are interested in giving us the required assistance, kindly reply this fax stating your Direct telephone/Fax numbers for further communication. Because of the secrecy surrounding this transaction, l suggest that you contact me only through e-mail address below or fax number until further notice. l am looking forward to a favorable reply from you soon.

l just want to tell you that lf you decided to assist us to transfer this money to your company or personal account we will invest this money to your company and other properties. You will have 30% as your commission.

Thank you for recognizing our proposal firm and we assure you of our excellent professional services and fully successful or this transfer.
Feel free to ask any question.
Regards,
MR. CALEB MARTINS
0027 726 344148



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