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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: "BAKO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ahmedbako@web2mail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 21:12:24 -0700
Subject: HELLO

Hello,

As part of the activities lined up to commemorate the anniversary of the historic visit of President Obama to Ghana in July 2009 as the first African country to be so honoured, the present executive arm of the Ghanaian government with support from other West African countries has resolved to intervene in the financial sector with the view to off-set every
outstanding payment owed to foreigners in the both private and public sector as a way to woo foreign investors to further boost the economy.

This is coming as a response to the global condemnation of the activities of a few fraudulent Nigerians, Ghanaians and other countries in the West African sub region that are hell-bent of tarnishing the image and reputation of this great African sub region through Advanced Fee Fraud scam.

We are however doing everything within out powers to ensure we bring them to book, and also settle claims of genuine foreigners that are indebted here by the Government and some banks in the private sector which include payments for Contract execution, Transfer for Next of kin beneficiaries, and Compensations payments among others.

To actualize this noble objective, The government has so far made a total payment of $106 million to the Volta River Authority and the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) in respect of the debt accumulated under recovery and set up Seven-man Panel headed by Dr Joe Oteng-Adjei with a 14 Days work mandate to reassess all the outstanding debts, and recommend for payment, foreigners that are credibly and genuinely owed here as above mentioned.

With greetings from the Ancient Gold Coast where I was nominated to head this panel, I write to inform you that I have resumed duty as the Chairman of this august panel, and to offer the unreserved apologies of the federal government of Nigeria and the entire ecowas sub region to you. It is further my desire to intimate you with the fact that I have studied your payment file very carefully and have today recommended you for immediate payment.

It is therefore my pleasure to request that you confirm your contact details to enable me ensure am not routing the fund to the wrong person so that you can open up direct communication with our overseas officials for immediate payment of your fund.


Best Regards,

Ahmed Bako

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