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: "john badu" <johnbadu31@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnbadu_2007@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:00:38 +0000
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANCE NEEDED.

Central Bank of Nigeria Controller Unit of lnternational Funds.
From The Desk of Auditor General Central Bank of Nigeria Dr. john badu

Attention: Sir/Ceo, Compliment to you and your family.
lntroduction;

Dr. john badu is my name, l work with the Central Bank of Nigeria. l serve
as an Accountant Auditor.

After the retirement of our former Governor of Central Bank( Chief Joesph
Sanusi) There was an over draft payment invoice of the sum $19.3 Million
USD. These over payment draft invoice occurred last Two years.

So therefore, l and two of my colleagues were aware of the funds. Then
immediately our New Governor was appointed into office, he knew nothing
about the funds because he was just a new comer in the Central Bank.

With immediate effect, we have decided that you shall provide to us your
company name/for the preparation of the documents which need to be done.
Before filing it in the Bank for transfer.

You shall stand as the owner of these contract Number :(CBN/720/FGN/091673)
and as a Contractor, the preparation of the paper work will be confirmed to
the Bank, that you are the contractor of the orginated amount. So what we
need shall be your company name, for us to program it into our computer data
Base.

All the necessary documents, will be obtained for the Ministries that are
also concerned in Central Bank Activities, attached and approval by the
President of the country. Once the orginated money is transferred into the
requested account, we shall also immediately withdraw back the whole
documents too.

Our Mode of sharing is :55% for us, 35% to you and 10% to cover expenses.

Provide your telephone/fax number/Home Address immediately you receive these
message.

The Confidenciality of this transaction remains between both of us. Because
am still under Government acting service. And we Civil Servants are not in
position of operating money into foreign accounts. That is why immediately
the successfully of the transaction, l will submit my retirement letter.
Whereby l shall be coming to meet with you for our part of share of the
funds.

Yours Faithfully,
Dr. john badu
Accountant Auditor Central Bank of Nigeria
+2348076771370
+2347034843704

_________________________________________________________________
Can you find the hidden words?  Take a break and play Seekadoo!
http://club.live.com/seekadoo.aspx?icid=seek_hotmailtextlink1


Anti-fraud resources: