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: amara Ibrahim <amaraibrah03@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ibrahimamar01@yahoo.ie
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:56:38 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Salam Dear


Salam Dear,

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your overseas account the sum of($10.3 USD)Ten million Three hundred thousand United States Dollars from the Bank where i work here in Dakar Senagal.

I am Mr.Amara Ibrahim, the Auditor General of the Bank i work here in Dakar Senegal during the course of our auditing , I discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1992 and till date no body has operated on the account and after going through old files in the records , I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a[Heir/WILL], hence the floating of the funds and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of the account was a foreigner , Mr Alex Hazim From Elexandria Egypt,He deals on Export and Buying of Gold and Diamond.

Therefore ,with a personal conviction of trust and confidence ,I wish to contact you as a foreigner , I am here to work out the release of the funds , No other person in the office knows about the account , please be assured of the risk free , I'm the one that will work it out , all I need is your cooperation because the account content can not be approved to an indigen here as his next of kin .

At the conclusion of this project , I propose a joint investment of an equal partnership to you or we may share it in a ratio of 45% for you and 55% for me.

One more thing please; I beg you don't consider this against moral justification , they are many other aspects of life we may contribute with this funds to help the less privileged and the needy in a society than having it shared as an unclaimed bill among Government PLEASE .

I look forward to your earliest response
Regards.
Mr.Amara Ibrahim


---------------------------------
Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

Anti-fraud resources: