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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. Michael Delamino" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michaeldlmin@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 03:07:07 +0100
Subject: :: Dear Sir Read Carefully

Dear Sir

I am the new auditor general of Alliance bank Malaysia that is appointed to head the accounting and auditing section of this bank. My new appointment is to verify some financial loopholes that have been going on in this bank as for quite number of years now. This bank pays the foreign contractor’s on contract executed for the government of Malaysia . I discovered that government awarded a contract of the sum of thirty million United States dollars to a foreign contractor in the year 2008.

The contract awarding committee chairman increased the total contract value to forty million five hundred United States dollars with the hope of sharing the added sum of USD10.5M with his committee members on completion and payment of the contract sum. The contract was fully completed and commissioned in the year 2009 and total contact value fully paid leaving the over voiced sum of ten million five hundred dollars USD10.5M floating in a natural account.

Government dissolved the contract awarding committee and transferred the former auditor after completion of that contract thereby giving them no chance to file the required documents for the release and transfer of the added sum of USD10.5 Million. It is this USD10.5million that one Mr. Paul Allen came to claim through my office and failed to provide the necessary documents backing his claim, hence I started to dig about this USD10.5 until I came to the conclusion of how the amount came. I maintained this top secret, but relayed the information to the foreign payment chairman and manager of the bank who agreed for us to work out the avenues of releasing this fund to your favor for our mutual benefits. However my verifications during my auditing work indicates that it was a deal that the Chairman of the contract awarding committee did, but unfortunately could not execute it as they were dismissed on completion of the contract.

I would like you to cooperate with me in top confidence so that I will secure all documents for the release and transfer of this fund to your account for our sharing. 25% of the total sum will be given to you, 5% will be set aside to offset local and international expanse that might arise during the process of this transaction while70% will be for us. More details of arrangements will be made known to you on confirmation of your cooperation and indication to work with me in top confidence in releasing this fund to your bank account.


Thanks
Mr. Michael Delamino


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