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: "Mr. George Ettimson" <george124ettimson@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mr.georgeettimson@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:55:22 +0100
Subject: ATTN: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER




Dear Chief Executive Officer, Please don't see the under stated text for amount of US$14,400,000 as a waste of time and unsolicited message to you. It is not scam in any way, neither does it has any breach to law. It is absolutely legit and real to the core for you and I to amicably share. I am MR. GEORGE ETTIMSON, Director of Finance And Purchases, National Aviation Authority (NAA). Please my resolve to write you is to confide in you with all my heart, sincerity and honesty over this amount of US$14,400,000 (Fotrteen Million, Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). I deliberately make an excess amount of the above figure to the (NAA) when I was ordered by the President to present my department's article of purchase and repair of two Presidential Airjet and purchasing of huge servicing spear parts for government's commercial air crafts to his office for assent. The documentation quotion which was phyically sent to the President by the Minister of NAA and myself was carefully cross-checked by the President and the Accountant General of the Federation before the President could finally assented to it after a week of its submission.
The total amount quoted for the purchase and repair of the two Presidential Airjet including purchasing of huge servicing spear parts is US$70,400,000 while the actual cost is US$56,000,000. This total amount of US$70,400,000 was released by the instruction of the President through Foreign Reserve Bank Account in Europe where I was mandated to advice all the firm where I made all the Purchases to submit their letter of payment to the Foreign Reserve Bank and have their debt paid off. In reference of paying all this debts to the companies as government had released funds for it, I have resolve to use your name and company for the payment of the excess amount of US$14,400,000 as one the debted companies where I made the purchases.
The proof of risk free in this legit transaction is the President's approval to the purchases before it was commence.Upon your return mail, I shall release the required information you needed to have the fund received from the Foreign Reserve Foreign Bank.
From bottom of my sincere heart, I resolve to share this US$14,400,000 with you as follows: You as my foreign partner shall be entitled with 50%, while I also take 50%. On your return mail please do include your reachable telephone number for an urgent communication. Your interest is being awaited as I hope you will. Best Regards, MR. GEORGE ETTIMSON
MANAGING DIRECTOR R.T.C
_________________________________________________________________
Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy!
http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us

Anti-fraud resources: