joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

• About the 419 (Advance Fee) scam
• "Is that email a scam?" - Check it online here!
  
• Frequently asked Questions (419 FAQ)
• Phone numbers used by 419 scammers
  (+225 +229 +234 +27 +31 +32 +34 +44 other)
• Company names mentioned in 419 spam:
  1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Support our efforts to stop scams!
  
• How to report 419 spam to us
• What can you do when you receive 419 spam
  
  
• Spam archive, Daily index
  

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.

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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "this business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Tafsir Mbaye" <mbayecms@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: cmstafsir@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 07:00:30 +0100
Subject: Salam Alaikum, / Good Day,

Salam Alaikum Good Day,
I know that this letter will come to you as a surprise as we have never meet before,but need not to worry as I am using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for your foreign assistance in a business.I am contacting you independently of my investigation and no one is informed of this communication.

My name is Mr Tafsir Mbaye.Iam the bill and exchange manager in one of the prime bank here in Dakar Senegal.I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose in you for the mutual benefit of our families.

I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our Bank who perished along with his next of kin with Korean Air Line, flight number 801 with the whole passengers on 6th of august 1997 ,for your perusal view click on this site http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list

Since the demise of our customer, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$10.3M (Ten Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which has been with our Bank for a very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin since nobody is coming for the fund again.The Banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than 12 years, because the money will be recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed fund after this period.

In view of this I got your contact through the Internet when I was making a research for a foreigner that I will use in this great opportunity because I dont want the money to be recalled to government treasury as unclaimed fund.

I am offering you 50% of the total sum if you agree to execute this transaction with me and the rest 50% will be for me.The reason for a foreigner in the business is for the fact that the
deceased was a foreigner and it is not authorized by the law guiding the peoples Repubic of Senegal for a citizen of this country to make such claim.

This is the reason why the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the release and transfer of the funds smoothly into your reliable Bank account.If you are really sure of your integrity, trustworthy and confidentiality, and accept not to cheat or disappoint me after this business, reply with your telephone and fax numbers,first and last name,office and home address for further communication and papper work regarding the execution of this project,

Upon receipt of the above mentioned informations,indicating your interest in the business,I will draft and send to you by fax or e-mail a letter of application which you will re-copy and send back to our Foreign Remittance Department in our Bank, for easy execution of the transaction.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and dont have any negative implication .Please you should not entertain any fear as I have made all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer of this fund to your account. This transaction will be completed within 14 Bank working days immediately we start the project.

Please observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country immediately after the execution of the project.

Waiting for your urgent response and please kindly delete if you are not interested.
Regards,
Mr.Tafsir Mbaye,

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam