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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.Bellack" <morrisbellack@apnamultan.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:18:06 +0530 (IST)
Subject:


Dear Friend,
With due respect to your person and
much sincerity of purpose I make this contact with you as I believe that you can
be of great assistance to me. my name is  Mr.Bellack
Morris, from Ouagadougou Republic of BURKINA FASO, West Africa.
Presently i work in the Bank as telex manager. I have been searching for your
contact since you left our country some years ago .I do not know whether this is
your correct email address or not because I only used your name initials to
search for your contact in the internet .In case you are not the person I am
supposed to contact , please see this as a confidential message and do not
reveal it to another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do let me
know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because it is
top secret.

I am about to retire from active Bank service to start a new
life but I am sceptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger . You
must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we are not
going to suffer again in life.

It has been 10 years now that most of the
greedy African Politicians used our bank to Launder money overseas through the
help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out
of the shores of Africa was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been
used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the
amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to
divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how
much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being
closed after transfer.

I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the
politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their
greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and
no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control. They
laundered over ($5b) Five Billion Dollars during the process .As I am sending
this message to you, I was able to divert more than Ten Million Dollars ($4.5m)
to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to
know who is the beneficiary to the funds because they have made a lot of profits
with the funds.

It is more than Eight years now and most of the
politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The $4.5
Million Dollars has been lying waste but I don't want to retire from the bank
without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the
proceeds with the receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you
.

There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured
everything.I only want you to assist me by providing a bank account where the
funds can be transferred. You are not to face any difficulties or legal
implications as I am going to handle the transfer personally. If you are capable
of receiving the funds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you a
detailed information on what to do.

For me, I have not stolen the money
from anyone because the other people that took the whole money did not face any
problems. This is my chance also to grab my own but you must keep the details of
the funds secret to avoid leakages as no one in the bank knows about the funds.


Please supply me the following:
Your current contact address and
Telephone Numbers.
I shall intimate you on what to do when I get your
confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted associate,
do declare your consent to me.
Waiting for your urgent response.
Yours
Faithfully,
Morris Bellack.


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