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: "dean murray" <dean_murray122@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dean_muray@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:30:21 -0500
Subject: very urgent...........awaiting ur reply

Hello,

My name is Dr. Dean Murray, CEO, ADAMS KIDS. After going through your job
resume, am pleased in offering you a part time paying job. ADAMS KIDS needs
a Payment Representative in the states. This project has been developed in a
way not to affect your present job nor bring you any form of stress but in
order to help take care of those extra costs in the area of Financial
Independence, and also empower you by providing the keys to controlling your
income and quality in life.

This job would be based on contract and commission terms, it is a part-time
job and it would involve quite a handful of trust and honesty. If you would
be interested in including a good-paying, part time job to your daily list
of activities and earning up to $1000 weekly.

I just took time to make this explanatory enough so you could understand
what the job entails, before I go further I thought I'd inform you of both
who you would be working for and what you would be doing.

As I have previously informed you, of who I am, I am 45 years of age, I am
blessed with 2 kids, a lovely girl and a troublesome boy, and the love of my
life, my wife, Felicia Murray. I am a somewhat a human activist and I do
quite a lot of traveling and get to meet quite a lot of people who need my
services.

I reside in London, England and even though I have lived most of my life in
other parts of the world, I am fully residing in London even though I get to
do a lot of traveling though.

Being the Chief Executive Director of ADAMS KIDS, the Kids clothes
specialist. A company described with great history and strong believe on the
note ''children are the leaders of tomorrow'' , with examples of clothing
ranges and special offer which includes online employment opportunities.

Over the years the Ambition of the company has gone beyond the making of
cloth and literarily extended to rendering helps and supports on
humanitarian services pretty much on orphanage homes , less privileged
scholarship and giving proper education on child abuse, sex education and
subsidized medication for good health most especially in the developing
world.

ADAMS Family has great privileged to have worked with many charity
Organization in the United Kingdom and more taking a step to the
international level. Amy Adams sets up a baby's clothing business from her
terraced house in Birmingham.

At ADAMS KIDS, we work hard to support the community. As a brand, we aim to
help improve the quality of life for children and their families. This is
demonstrated in our role as corporate sponsor for the Well Child charity
with money raised going towards helping sick children and their families In
the UK and fundraising for Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, a charity
supported by our stores In Eire.

Read about our brief history on ADAMS KIDS HISTORY LIFELINE.

Read about our work with: Well Child,Tommy's the Baby Charity and more on
our Web Site.

This website is launched in March with the new branding and new features
designed to help and inform mum.

Our new online store is launched in October selling our Christmas gift range
to customers on the web for the first time.

Presently, I have just been granted a funding to head a charity support
project in the tropical regions of East Africa regarding Poverty
Alleviation, Provision of clothing materials to all kids in rural areas,
extending to the war zones of West Africa,counseling on the HIV AIDS which
is increasing at an alarming rate and provision of basic amenities in
support to humanitarian services to the third world nations and this would
be commencing very soon.
However, my funding were by my American counterparts which sent me the bunch
of payments mostly in US based money orders.

Getting an accountant in the states or opening an account would have been my
best choice but I have a deadline to meet and taking any of those choices
would cost me time and a whole lot of other requirements I am not ready to
deal with as I would be traveling a lot in the meantime.

So presently, I would be willing to accept your application on contract
basis to be my Payment Representative in the states.

We need you; Volunteers are part of almost all our projects.
Being a volunteer is about sharing your experience with someone else. It’s
about being valued for the contribution only you can make. It’s about
changing someone else’s world.

This way I could issue and make these money orders out to you, you could
then cash them easily, deduct ten percent( 10%) of the total amount on these
money orders as your commission for the great service you have rendered in
support to saving life's in the third world and then have the rest wired to
me via Western Union Money Transfer.(or directly to my accountants involved
in this project) . The Western Union Service fee should also be deducted
alongside your 10% service charge before having the rest wired via Western
Union.

Bear it in mind that we would be dealing with quite a handful of cash and
you could be making good money working with me in a short period of time.

I would be glad if you accept my proposal and I intend to commence on
starting as soon as you are ready. If you are interested, please email me
back so we could make concluding arrangements.

Best Regards,
Dr. Dean Murray,
Chief Executive
www.adamskids.co.uk

_________________________________________________________________
Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office
Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/


Anti-fraud resources: