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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 WONG TANG" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.wongtangyu@nba2k.com.cn>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:32:54 +0200
Subject: URGENT MAIL (IMMEDIATE RESPONSE REQUIRED)

Greetings,

Complement of the day to you and your beloved family. I apologize for this
intrusion, I decided to contact you through email due to the urgency
involved in this matter.

Do not be astonished for receiving this mail Please, I seek your permission
and would want to get myself introduce to you. I am Mr. Wong Tang Yu.
I work with Hang Seng Bank Hong Kong.

I need your co-operation in receiving USD$6.5M that has been in a dormant
account with my bank for over 3 to 4 years which belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his entire family during the Iraq war
in 2006. I will provide you with detailed information's on the modalities of
this operation once I have your interest but I must say that trust flourishes
business.

Therefore let your conscience towards this proposal be nurtured with sincerity
and I will not fail to bring to your notice that, this transaction is hitch-free
risk and you should keep this transaction ( CONFIDENTIAL) why because,
no other person know about it, its a business between you and myself only
for the safety and security of the business.

I agree that 50% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect
to your effort in setting up a foreign account where these fund will be
transfer into, and 50% will be for me upon completion of this deal as I will
come over to your disbursement according to the percentage indicated.
Remember, that i have already planned out a safe strategy to carry out this
deal in a very simple manner, I will bring you up to date with all the
information's as soon as I hear from you. If I don't hear from
you within a certain period, I will assume, you are not interested.

You can see the news in bbc and cnn regarding their death:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/world/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6040054.stm

Meanwhile, If you are willing, capable and honest for this transaction, Kindly
indicate your interest by sending message immediately.

REPLY ME IN MY PRIVATE EMAIL: mr.wongtangyu@nba2k.com.cn
Yours Truly,
Mr Wong Tang Yu



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