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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: "Klaus Meyer" <kmeyer111@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: klausmeyer2010@yahoo.cn
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 06:48:42 +0800
Subject:

Hello,

I have picked-up courage and trust to forward this letter with divine
confidence that you are a reliable and honest person capable of handling this
important business proposal believing also that you will never let me down
either now or in the future.I am Mr Klaus Meyer,a German and a private audit
consultant with the Barclays Bank here in the UK. My client, a british
employee of an oil servicing company was 42yrs until his death in 2005 after
he suffered cancer, had an account with this bank monitored by me his account
officer. From my findings during auditing at the end of last fiscal year, the
deceased did not leave a will and no indication of a next of kin and as such
has no beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that my employers do not
have knowledge of this account which has a total sum of eight million, nine
hundred and fifty thousand British Pounds.[£8,950,000.00GBP]

Also my investigation over the years showed that my late client had no
relative and i wish to transfer these funds by means of my professional ideas
out of England. I know that this proposal will come to you as a surprise as
we don't have fore knowledge of each other. I therefore implore that you
treat this as important as can be to enable us achieve the claim of the
funds.It is a deal I will like to run with someone as trustworthy as you,thus
prompting me to search and retrieve your contact email from a trade
consultant here in England because you bear the same surname identity with
the deseased and therefore can present you as the beneficiary to the
inheritance since there is no written will., though I did not disclose the
purpose of my seeking for a foreign business partner to the consultant.

I have involved a very senior official in the remittance department of my
establishment, and we have agreed that after the transfer of the fund into
your designated bank account, you shall be entitled to 30% of the total sum,
my colleagues and I will have 60% while 10% will be used to reimburse all
expenses incurred by all parties during the transaction.All necessary
precautions have been taken to ensure a risk free situation on the side of
both parties.Please note that this deal can only take place on the following
conditions:

1. You will provide the bank account and other relevant particulars
information for easy and onward Remittance of the funds.
2. Absolute confidentiality and sincerity will be required and guaranteed,
considering our positions in the bank.
3. Assurance that our share of 60% will be released to us in good faith when
this funds finally gets into your nominated bank account.From my estimates,
this transaction will be within 14 working days as soon as we hear from you.
Please treat with utmost confidentiality.

Expecting your immediate response.

Regards,
Klaus Meyer


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