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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: "Mr. France Quansah" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:10:44 +0200
Subject: Greetings From Australia

Dear Sir,

With full personal responsibility and confidence, I would like you to please read through my messagebelow and give a conforming response at your earliest.

As a Private Investment Manager with Societe Generale Banque in Sydney, Australia; I was privileged to meet the late President of the Republic of Guinea, when he confidentially deposited a Consignment containing 200,000 Carats of Rough Diamonds which was valued at the sum of AUD$35,000,000.00 in an Escrow/Call Account with my Bank. Mr. Conte did not leave any beneficiary for this deposit as he thought safer here in Sydney far from his Continent.

This has made it impossible for the bank to contact any of his Family or Associate to claim the deposit after his death but having waited convincingly after his death, I decided to move the deposit into a suspense Account without beneficiary and then find a reliable Partner via internet who can assist me to withdraw this wealth.

Being an Official of the Bank I cannot directly claim/withdraw this deposit, thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive the proceeds into your bank Account as we shall officially trade the Diamonds with the Bank according to the day's World Market prices of Diamonds. I have already submitted an audited approved end of the year Report for the year 2007/8 to our Bank head office, so that deposit can never be discovered. I propose we share the proceeds equally 60/40%.

Let me stress here that there are practically no risks involved in this transaction, The transfer will be done via bank-to-bank transfer once the diamonds are traded into Cash. But to protect ourselves, we need to keep the transaction "entre nous/ between us" I will send you details of the moderlities to legally transfer the deposit into your Bank Account without any problem.

Please include you detail contact information to enable direct communication following.

Best Regards,

Mr. France Quansah.
Res:
Grosvenor Place, 205 George Street,
Sydney, NSW 2000.
E-mail: deads001@voila.fr
Tel: +61-390-087-805


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