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: "ousmane kaba" <ous_kab1000@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: ous_kaba@myway.com
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:43:29 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

Dear good friend,
I am Mr. Ousmane Kaba, Branch Manager of Bank Of Africa (B.O.A). I would
like to know if this proposal will be worth while for your acceptance.
I have a Foreign Customer who is an Investor, Crude Oil Merchant and Federal
Government Contractor that was a victim with Korean Air Line, flight number
801 with the whole passengers on 6th of augustus 1997 leaving a closing
balance of $10.3m in one of his Private US Dollar Account
that is been managed by me as the Customer's Account Officer.
Base on my security report, these funds can be claimed without any hitches
as no one is aware of the funds and its closing balance except me and the
customer (Now Deceased) therefore, I can present you as the Next of Kin and
we will work out the modalities for the claiming of the funds in accordance
with the law. If you are interested, Please call me to discuss in further
details and our sharing ratio will be 60% for me and 30% for you.while 10%
will be for the naccasery expenciss that might occur along the line.

Thank you,

Sincerely.

Mr. OUSMANE KABA.

_________________________________________________________________
Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!
http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/


Anti-fraud resources: