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: davids daniels <davids@davidsdaniels.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:12:55 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FILING FOR A PROFITABLE BUSINESS PROPOSAL!!!




Attn:Please,


DO GO THROUGH THIS PROPOSAL CAREFULLY
REPLY BACK TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW
Nichpolo1955@aim.com

I represent a top oil company as an executive in Russia. My name is Nicholas Poloskoval (MR) and I am the Personal Manager to the organization I have a very sensitive and private offer from this top executive to ask for your partnership to re-profile some offshore investment funds worth over US$55,000,000 (Fifty Five Million United States Dollars). I am constrained however to withold most of the details for now.

But in summary the invested funds are in a bank in western Europe, we need to terminate this investments and re-profile the funds over to you for certain reasons. This is due to the major proble between the Russia government and one time the bigest oil Company in Russia (YUKOS OIL) in Russia presently.

This is a legitimate transaction, if we are agreed on the terms you will be paid 10% for "re-profiling and subsequent management of the funds" . If you are interested, please write back by email to Nichpolo1955@aim.com please with your trusted personal telephone numbers and email address and I will give you further details.

Note that i am presently in Europe for now due to this project,as soon as you get back to me with a positive result we shall proceed on this project immediately.Your personal telephone number is required for proper communication please.

Please keep this close to your chest as much as possible; we cannot afford any political problems. Write me back. I look forward to it.

Best regards,
Nicholas Poloskoval (MR)
Private email : Nichpolo1955@aim.com

Attn:Please,


DO GO THROUGH THIS PROPOSAL CAREFULLY
REPLY BACK TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW
Nichpolo1955@aim.com

I represent a top oil company as an executive in Russia. My name is Nicholas Poloskoval (MR) and I am the Personal Manager to the organization I have a very sensitive and private offer from this top executive to ask for your partnership to re-profile some offshore investment funds worth over US$55,000,000 (Fifty Five Million United States Dollars). I am constrained however to withold most of the details for now.

But in summary the invested funds are in a bank in western Europe, we need to terminate this investments and re-profile the funds over to you for certain reasons. This is due to the major proble between the Russia government and one time the bigest oil Company in Russia (YUKOS OIL) in Russia presently.

This is a legitimate transaction, if we are agreed on the terms you will be paid 10% for "re-profiling and subsequent management of the funds" . If you are interested, please write back by email to Nichpolo1955@aim.com please with your trusted personal telephone numbers and email address and I will give you further details.

Note that i am presently in Europe for now due to this project,as soon as you get back to me with a positive result we shall proceed on this project immediately.Your personal telephone number is required for proper communication please.

Please keep this close to your chest as much as possible; we cannot afford any political problems. Write me back. I look forward to it.

Best regards,
Nicholas Poloskoval (MR)
Private email : Nichpolo1955@aim.com

Anti-fraud resources: