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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: CURTIS SEBASTIAN <curtis@curtissebastian.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent matter



I am Barrister CURTIS SEBASTIAN (Esq), a solicitor at law, personal attorney to
Mr.Craig A Perciano,a nationality of your country, An oil consultant / contractor
with the Togolaise Shell Petroleum Corporation. Here in after shall be referred to
as my client .On the 25th JULY 2003, my client,his wife and their entire family
unfortunately lost there lives in a concord plane crash IN PARIS FRANCE and since
then I have made several
enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my client
extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful.
For more prove you can have a look of the plane crash in this web site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name to
locate any of his relatives hence I have contacted you to assist in repatriating

the fund valued at US$22.850m left behind by my client before it gets confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the management of the security company where this
huge amount was deposited in two truck boxes under the coverage of family
valuables,according to the laws of the Federal Republic of Togo Section 2 Sub-
Section 5, paragraph IV states that at the expiration of good 7(SEVEN) years, any
unclaimed fund shall be reverted into the escrow account of the Federal Government
if nobody puts claims of ownership.
Since I have been unsuccessfully in locating the relatives for up to date, I will
like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to my late client so that
the boxes will be released and transferred to your home address as his next of
kin .Therefore,on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the
sharing ratio and modalities for transfers as I have every necessary information
and legal documents needed to back you up for claim.All I required is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction
through.You are also advised to observe utmost confidentiality and rest assured
that this transaction would be most profitable to both of us as I guarantee that
this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law.You can get in touch to me through my private email address
curtis_123sebastian@yahoo.com
Thanks Barr CURTIS SEBASTIAN(Esq)
Principal Partner, BACOB
Consultant Services
#14 Rue du Boulevard,
Lome,Togo

Thanks

Barr CURTIS SEBASTIAN (Esq)
Principal Partner,
Consultant Services
#14 Rue du Boulevard,
Lome,Togo



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