joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS KIMBA ADKOWI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <adkowi.mrskimba@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 07:52:12 +0200
Subject: YOUR PRIZE CLAIM 815,960 EUROS

$7.7 Million USD Deposit For Claim

Top Secrecy and highly confidential

WE ARE LOOKING FOR RELIABLE BENEFICIARY PERSONAL OR BANK ACCOUNT TO REMIT $7,700,000.00 MUSD

Dear,

We are officials of African Development bank, we have ADB Bank inheritance deposit fund for claim. We are looking for a reliable beneficiary personal or company account that can assist us to claim total of $7,700,000 Million USD.

The fund belongs to one of our female customer whom is now late but well know politician from Africa. We assisted the customer to deposit the fund. Now the customer is late without any next of kin to claim the money.

We are looking for a reliable bank account that we can use as next of kin to claim the total money, with our instruction the money will be transfer directly into the account you will provide. If you are really interested on this deal, you will have 30% and 70% for us.

The deal will only take 5 days. If you are really serious to provide us with your bank account please contact me by email: by email:adkowi.mrskimba@gmail.com


Thanks,

Mrs kimba Adkowi

Anti-fraud resources: