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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: Hafed Arubeyeh <hon_tonywest@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: hafedarubeyeh@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: AL-Azzawi



Sir,

I am Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim AL-Azzawi,Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Recently, I mandated the chief Auditor, Muhama Hamza Zuba YDI,(Retired),foreign exchange department of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Baghdad headquarters to carry out intensive auditing in the ministry. See the websites (www.chris-floyd.com/wa), (www.iraqpictures.org) (www.texansforpeace.org/endthewar/oldersoldiers6.htm)

During his recent auditing in this Ministry, he discovered an account opened in this department in the year, 2001 and since 2003, no one operated on the account. When we verified the related file, we discovered the owner of the Account was Engr. Gustavo Pettit, who was an engineer with Baghadad Oil Refinery but died in a plan clash that claimed many lives in 2003 and since then, no one operated in the Account.
The Account has no nest of kin and the officials, staff of this department are ignorance of this.

With the help of a Financial Expert, I and the Auditor have moved the total funds in a leading security firm in London. The address and phone will be communicated to you as I hear from you. It may interest you to note that we can not make use of this money here for fear of Government seizure. I therefore need your assistant to help me to receive the funds which is Forty five million, seven hundred thousands United Dollars only by (US$45,700,000.00). If we do not remit the funds quickly, the Firm may be charging demurrages and it may be forfeited for nothing. Again, the funds can only be paid into a foreign account since I know you have one for yourself.

If you can help, kindly send down the following to me. Once you indicate your willingness to help me, I will send you Certificate of Deposit and change of owner ship to you from the Ministries concern. You can as well contact the General Manager of the Firm where the total funds is being deposited with all the requirements below, Mr. Hafed Arubeyeh as follows: hafedarubeyeh@gmail.com
Tel. No.+ 44-7035923761,
Fax:+44-7005 938-952
+44-7005 938-259
1. FULL NAME
2. TELEPHONE, MOBILE NUMBER,
3. BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS, Empty one
4. ADDRESS.
Reply also to maryjonesxx@aol.com
Yours Faithfully
Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim AL-Azzawi


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