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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: George Jones <georgesjones90@mail.com>
Reply-To: georgesjones01@hosanna.net
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:47:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I AM WAITING YOUR URGENT REPLY




Dear friend,

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise irrespective of the fact that we have not met for the first time or known each other before , but bear with me for contacting you through this media as it is the easiest way I can contact you as a foreigner with out exposing this business, and I must have to introduce my self to you before relenting you the business i want to engage with you, my name is Mr George Jones manager audit and account department of our bank, African development bank (ADB) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso in West Africa.
 
infect I kindly made up my mind to contact you to use your account to transfer the sum of (39,500,000) thirty nine million five hundred thousand USA Dollars in account, this money was discovered in the account of our late bank customer who died with his family in air crash leaving nobody as his next of kin to make the claim of his money and if no body come after the claim of this fund the bank will remit the fund into our bank treasurer as an abandoned fund which i don't want the money to go into our bank treasurer as an abandoned fund, this is the reasons of my earnest search of a foreigner who is reliable and trustworthy that can handle this confidential transaction with me for all assistance to enable us claim the fund so that the bank can release the money to your account as the next of kin to the deceased customer.

After the funds have successfully transferred into your account your share will be 40% of the total sum while 60% will be for me note this transaction is 100% risky free you should not worry atall because from the day i notice that the fund has been in the account without any withdrawals and deposits I started followin the file till the account became dormant before I investigated to find out that the owner of the account died with his wife and their only daughter in a plane crash.
 
If you are interested please contact me immediately with your full information as i stated it bellow so that i will give you more details on how we are going to follow up the transaction and i would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested.

Follow this chat below and send me your information so that we can start off immediately.
(1) Your Full Name:.................
(2) Your Full Address:.............
(3) Your Phone Number:..........
(4) Your Occupation:...............
(5) Your Sex...........................
(6) Your Age:.........................
(7) Your Nationality:................
 
Once i receive your reply i will send to you the
application letter which you fill and send to our bank for the further process
of the fund.
 
Regards
Mr George Jones








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