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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: "Dipo Shokoni" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <auditordipo1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:00:17 -0000
Subject: PERSONAL APPEAL

Sir,



I am Mr Dipo Shokoni , the Deputy Chairman
Central Bank of Nigerian Internal Auditors 2009, I am writing to make
a very personal appeal , I have attached some documents here to prove
myself, please read them as attached.

This money was approved for Mr. Robin O Stroller, he was supposed to
visit Central Bank of Nigeria to sign some release order documents
since end of last year before the bank can release his money as
directed by our government but unfortunately, this man died before his
appointment date, we got this information from a direct source and
since then, we have been trying to get somebody who has similar name
or same citizen, hence we got your name from our international
financial network, we got the signal that you also have an outstanding
payment and you have since been fighting to be paid.

I have decided to approach you so that we can divert this amount of
$12,000, 000 to any account that you could give to us, we have
discussed among us here and jointly agreed to do this because, if we
do not divert this fund for our own personal use now that we have the
opportunity/power to do so, the money will still end up into other
people's account, this is to show you the level of corruption in our
apex bank which is being backed by the top government officials and
business men.

We want you to keep this to yourself as we are sure that you may have
other peoples from our country who might be your friends or partners,
we want you to treat it as personal and to give us your answer
immediately before we can explain to you how we have planed to work it
out.

I will forward you my number as soon as I get a favorable answer from
you, you can also send me your number to call you, this is very urgent
as it must be concluded within 2 weeks, you will take 30% of this
amount =$12M . Email me(auditordipo@gmail.com) or Call +2348088282242


Thanks for your co-operation.
Regards
Dipo

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