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: rafael kone <rafkone033@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <rafkone@mixmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:12:02 +0000
Subject: URGENT PLEASE



From the desk of Mr. Rafael KoneHead of department audit and accountAfrican development Bank Burkina FasoWest Africa.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Rafael Kone, the head of Department with the African development bank Burkina Faso. It is with belief and trust that I send you this sensitive business proposal to enable me remit the sum of USD$23.2 M. (twenty three million two hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) into your account.

This amount belongs to one MR. JOHN KOROVO from Jordan and he died as a result of plane crash (Beirut air bound charter jet plane crash happen on the 26th December 2003, Cotonou republic of Benin. Here is the web site (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash)

Now I have agreed, and to arrange with you a as a reliable foreign partner who will assist me by claiming to be the next of kin to the account owner who died in plane crash.

I am contacting you because by law, we are precluded from operating any foreign bank account while in service. The only way you can certainly confirm the genuity and existence of the claim is by applying first to our bank for the release of the claim, then you shall be advised accordingly your self, as our bank must not in any circumstance know my involvement in the transaction now or after now.

If it interests you to assist, please feel free to contact me, I promise and agree to offer you 40% from the total fund while 60% will be for me.
Note: any expense incur during the process of transferring this fund, time wasted and telephone bill will be deduct first before the sharing of the fund in your account. A. full name: B. Cell Phone: C. Occupation: D. Country: E. Age: F. passport number:

Finally, I will highly appreciate it if you could make up your mind for us to do the business, which will be of great mutual benefit to both of us. Thanking you for you kind of co-operation and remain blessed as i look forward to hear from you soonest.

My regard to you.Mr. Rafael Kone.
_________________________________________________________________
Discover the new Windows Vista
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

Anti-fraud resources: