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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. Mike Adisa" <madisa@scbank-ng.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:51:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: MY MAIL





Dear Sir,

I thank God for the grace and opportunity to talk with you. First, I must solicit our confidence in this transaction as I await your urgent responds to this email.

I am Mr. Mike Adisa, the Head of Operation Department of Standard Chartered Bank PLC Nigeria. We had a customer Late Mr. Yuki. a nationality of your country, who used to work with shell development Oil company here in Nigeria.

On the 29th November 2008, Mr. Yuki, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Benin express way which leads to death of all occupants of the vehicle.

Mr. Yuki was our good customer and maintained a deposit of $75 Million United States Dollars with our bank when he was alive. Since his death, I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of his extended relatives but proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts to locate any of his family members, hence I contacted you so that you can come forward for this claim before the management cadre of my bank sees the fund as an unclaimed deposit that will be shared among them after every calendar meeting of the year.

This transaction is legal and risk free as I have all the necessary information or proofs of fact or existence to back you up and fund will be released to your account in a few banking days, starting from the day you make contact to my bank with full details of the account/deposit which I will be forwarding to you soon.

Therefore, the fund will be paid to you as an extended relation and next of kin to late Mr. Yuku for us to share as partner. For your interest please get back to me with your Full name...., your address..... And direct phone/mobile contacts number for more details.

Please this is very confidential and it requires your maximum cooperation for a greater success. I and my wife will come over to your country immediately the fund is successfully transferred to your account for a family investment with my own share.
I await your urgent attention (mikeadisa@scbank-ng.com) to commence transaction with my bank for this claim as I will be guiding you with information as an insider with the bank.

Best Regards,

Mr. Mike Adisa

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