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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: herymartin02@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:22:48 -0800
Subject: PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL ........................


From Mr Hery Martin
21 route de Maconnex.
Genève 10
BCV bank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
SWITZERLAND
Att:
In order to transfer out (USD 26 M) twenty six million United States
Dollars) from BCV bank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise SWITZERLAND . I am writing
asking for a reliable and honest person who will be capable for this
important business believing that you will never let me down either now or
in future.I am Mr. Hery Martin , the Chief auditor of BCV Bank { SWITZERLAND
).There is an account opened in this bank in 1990 and since 1998 nobody has
operated this account again. After going through some old files in the
records, I discovered that the owner of this account is Mr.Sheu Yuan-dong
who died with his wife and their only daughter on February16, 1998 in a
plane crash. Please View this website:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/ the account has no
other beneficiary, The said amount is U. S$26.000,000.00 dollars(twenty
Million, US Dollars).I want to first transfer $6 ,000000.00 six million
United States Dollars from this money into a safe foreigners account. If
you are interested forward to me on this my address ;
martinhery002@yahoo.com or martin_hery002@yahoo.com : I will apply for
annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to
act and receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and
influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to
your account with appropriate clearance forms of the ministries and foreign
exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses
both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I look
forward to your earliest reply.
Yours truly,
Mr. Martin Hery

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