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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)
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:06:48 -0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM:MR.ADAMA=20MUSSA,
=20ATTENTION=20PLEASE=20READ=20VERY=20CAREFULLY=20AND=20REPLY=20ME?=

FROM:MR.ADAMA MUSSA, ATTENTION PLEASE READ VERY CAREFULLY AND REPLY ME

FROM:MR.ADAMA MUSSA
ACCOUNTS & AUDITING DEPT (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA

GOOD DAY FRIEND,
IT WILL BE A SURPRISE FOR YOU TO RECEIVE THIS MAIL. WELCOME THIS LETTER IN THE NAME OF ALL MIGHTY GOD,

I Am,Mr Adama Mussa. personal Assistant to the Branch Manager of Bank Of Africa
(BOA)Ouagadougou Burkina Faso I want to inquire from you if you can handle this transaction for mutual benefits/life opportunity for you and me, i will not afford to loose it. The transaction is about seeking your consent to present you as the next of kin/ beneficiary of the US$22.5 million dollars left by one of your national, who is a customer to the bank where i work, He died in a Kenya plane crash2003.with his family during their vacation journey,

The Fund is currently in a suspense account awaiting claim, the bank made a public notice that they are ready to release this fund to any of his relatives abroad. In that regard, i decided to seek your consent for this prospective opportunity, Have it at the back of your mind, that the transaction does not involve any risk and does not need much engagement from you, since i am familiar with this kind of transaction being an insider in this bank, Necessary modalities will be worked out to enable us carry out the fund claim under a legitimate arrangement. I have resolved to offer you 40% of the total fund, 5% for sundry expenses that maybe incurred during the process of executing this transaction and 55% percent for me and my family,immediately the Bank of Africa. transfer this money to your Bank Account.I and my family in this transaction will proceed immediately to your home country for our own share of the money.I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret as you may wish to know that I am Bank official.ok
I will give you more details about this transaction when I receive your affirmativeresponse,


Note Well: The name of the deceased client who deposited the sum of TWENTY TWO MILLIOM FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS($22.5million), in the BANK OF AFRICA here is DR.GEORGE BRUMLEY From the United States of America.Please also visit the website again to know more concerning the PLANE CRASH which took his live and those of his entire family members in the YEAR 2003 as follows:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Note Well: Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of application form to fill and send to the bank, for the bank to transfer the fund in to your bank account. please you have to contact me directly with my personal email.address stated here;(adama_mussa2008@hotmail.fr) Have A Great Day.

Your's Faithfully
Mr Adama Mussa



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