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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: peter nouri <peternouri1@chamberbf.com>
Reply-To: peter_nourii@sify.com
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 03:40:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GOODNEWS

Month of Blessings
I AM MR PETER NOURI.
I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise. I am the Head Of File Department Bank Of Africa HERE IN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA.

I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that i am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families.I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($8.2.MILLION) immediately to your
account.

This money has been dormant for years in our Bank here without any body coming for it. I want us to team up and convince the bank to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) The deceased account No. boa/00678123-014 belonging to late customer Mr. Andreas Schranner with our bank valued sum of (USD$8.2.MILLION US DOLLARS).
He died along with the intire family in a place crash as a victim of the 31, JULY 2001 Incident that happened in Paris .

The owner of this account is Mr. Andreas Schranner, A foreigner and he is the Manager of petrolchemical service and the owner of one company here in Burkinafaso. I don't want the money to be decleared as a Government of Burkinafaso treasury or the Directors of bank of africa to share it among themselves as an abandoned fund.

So this is the reason why I contacted you, so that the bank where I work as a staff will release the money to you as the nearest person or relation to the deceased customer who owns the said $8.2million dollars.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a TOP SECRET and delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will like you to send to me the following Information if you are interested :

Upon reciept of the above five requirement. I will send you the full details on how the transaction will be executed and also note that you will have 30% of the above mentioned sum, 10% will be for any expenses that we will do for the transfering of the Fund into your choosen bank account and 60% will be for me. If you agree to transact the busianess get back to me as soon as possible.

Thank's and hoping to hear from you
MR PETER NOURI Head Of File Department Bank Of Africa.

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