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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: Isa Akaba <isa.akaba@voila.fr>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 20:47:53 GMT
Subject: I NEED YOUR FULL ASSISTANCE PLEASE.

FROM THE DESK OF DR ISA AKABA.
STAFF OF (B.O.A) BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

My Good Friend,

How are you doing together with your family?
This message might meet you in utmost surprise; however it's just my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. Sorry to distract your attention, I AM DR ISA AKABA STAFF OF (B.O.A) BANK HERE IN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.

I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for our future families.
I contacts you in this transaction since i cannot be able to see you face to face at first that is why i decided to write.I will like you to take your time to read this mail carefully.I did not mean to embarrass you with my business proposal but i seriously need your assistance.Please this is a confidential matter and it requires urgency.

I got your contact from the international directory in few weeks ago before.
Moreover, I have laid all the solemn trust in you before I decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you, I would like you to indicate your interest to receive the transfer of ($5.5M Dollars) to your account within 14 banking days.

This is and abandoned sum that belongs to Late Mr.Adreas Schranner our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash disaster since 31st July 2000. Meanwhile I was very fortune to come across the deceased file.

You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this web site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Bear in mind that i contacted you because the deceased customer was a foreigner and only another foreigner like you can successfully claim out this money, it is in this regard that i decided to contact you with the confidence and hope that i must be safe and protected in your hands since what is involved is such a hugh amount of money in million dollars, And a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner
Hence you are a foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the deceased. The request of you as a foreigner is necessary and legit to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased customer.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, 40% will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account, 50% will be my share being the codinator and the pillar of the transaction while the rest 10% will be shared to the respectable Organizations Centers such as Charity Organization, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World.

Now, if you are really sure of your trustworthy, accountability, confidentiality on this transaction, contact me and agree that you will not change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund have getting into your account. Besides you should not entertain any fear because I am sure of the success as an insider in the bank.

Please this is very confidential, as soon as this fund hits your account and i shall visit you in your country for the shearing.

I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasurer as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why I contacted you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested.

I am waiting for your urgent respond to enable us proceed further for the transfer.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Isa Aakaba

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