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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <mg-prupim@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:40:53 +0000
Subject: RE; Partnership Request - Confidential.



From; Martin Moore.

I feel obliged writing this mail to you. Do accept my apology if this mail does not suit your personal or business ethics considering the fact that there wasn't earlier information regarding my mail. I'm establishing direct and personal communication with you soliciting for your assistance and co-operation in a business transaction involving USD 280 M (USD 280,000,000.00) hoping that you will contact me at your earliest convenience so that we can form a partnership towards this project.

PRUPIM is one of the leading real estate investment managers in the United Kingdom. We form part of the M&G Group of Companies which is the asset management arm of Prudential plc in the UK and Europe. We manage over $US37 billion of real estate assets, of which over US$6 billion is invested internationally in North America, continental Europe and Asia Pacific. We are invested in around 1,000 properties with approximately 6,000 property occupiers worldwide.

In the year 2000, precisely January 18th, I had a foreign Client Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who deposited USD 100, 000, 000.00 for an investment in European Property Fund. He was required to be present to make some endorsements on February 4 before he unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

Since his painful demise, I have been faced with difficulties in finding any of his relatives. Since then, the funds have been invested in the European Property Fund over the years which resulted to the USD 280 M. So you can understand that a profit of USD 180 M has been realized but I cannot transfer, lodge or secure these funds in my personal account considering my status. In this consideration, I am contacting you to seek for your kind understanding and sincere co-operation to stand in as an investor to claim the USD 180 M. If you are interested, do let me know so that we can have discussion in details. I am counting on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my desire that you keep this business to yourself. Thanks for your understanding co-operation. At the moment, I'm compelled not to issue more details about this business until your positive response is received. Please take a moment of your time schedule to read this and send your response. Stay well and keep me posted. Thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,
Martin Moore, MRICS.
Fund Manager, M&G European Fund.

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