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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: "ADDAYE" <addayer311@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: addayer31@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:11:32 +0100
Subject: HELLO

From:Addaye Rogatien

Email: addayer31@yahoo.fr <mailto:addayer31@yahoo.fr>

Attention: The CEO.,

Dear Sir,
NEXT OF KIN CLAIMS
I am Addaye Rogatien, Banker, working with Eco Bank in Cotonou Repubic of Benin, West Africa.
I am writing you this mail to kindly seek your consent and cooperation to present you as the next of kin to one of our late foreign customer, an Oil Explorer with Shell Petroleum, who was involved in an accident with the wife and the only daughter. This happened on the 15th of April, 2000. unfortunately they all lost their lives in the sad event. Since then I have made every efforts to locate any of his extended relatives, but all efforts proved abortive.
After all these efforts without a fruitful result, I decided to contact you for us to do business by processing the transfer of this money to you for onwards transfer to your country before this account is declared unserviceable by my Bank management, thereby loosing the money to government treasury which is of no benefit to anybody.
I am the only previlage person to be aware of his death because I am the account officer, I maintain his account. The balance left in this Domiciliary Dollar Account is valued at ($US12.2 million dollars) .

On receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the modalities for Investment but the sharing ratio is 50% for me and 45% for you, while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require.
I assure you of the legitimacy of every arrangement put in place to protect our integrity.
You have to keep this transaction secret between the two of us only as I am a staff of the bank.

Regards,
Yours sincerely,
Addaye Rogatien
Email: addayer31@yahoo.fr <mailto:addayer31@yahoo.fr>


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