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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: frank wilson <frankwilson36@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:31:10 -0700
Subject: CAN YOU ASSIST ME?

FROM MR. FRANK WILSON
DIRECTOR IN CHARGE OF
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
CONTINENTAL BANK,
TEL:+2347032759299.



My Dear,

Is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am Mr.
frank Wilson, the director in charge of auditing and accounting Unit
of Continental Bank in Republic of Nigeria . I deem it fit to contact
you regarding a transaction that will favor both of us at the end; I
want to know if i can trust you in claiming the fund in question.

I discovered the sum of Eleven million, Seven hundred United States
Dollars (USD11.7M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The
fund has been lying in a suspense account without anybody coming to
put claim over the money since the account owner late Dr. Hamid Ayed
from Lebanon , who was involved in the 23 October 2005 Nigerian plane
crash.

The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foreign account whose
owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the
deceased customer of the bank.

The foriegn account owner will impost himself as the next of kin to
the deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin who wishes
to speed up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If the
over due fund is not claimed by the end of next quarter, the
government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will take over the
ownership of the fund in line with the Federal Edict Act of 1979. We
do not want the government to take over the ownership of this money,
that is why I'm contacting you for us to work this out together, so
that I will portray you as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased
whose name is Dr. Hamid Ayed.

If you accept to carry out this project with me, I will offer you 50%
of the total sum, while I will take 50% of the total sum. Upon your
acceptance to do this deal with me. Be rest assured that, this
transaction is risk free and there's no extra responsibilities on your
part, except the above mentioned roles and normally you will be
required to maintain absolute information and absolute secrecy through
out the duration of this transaction, because discussing it with a
third party might jeopardize the entire transaction.

Before we proceed in this great deal. please, i want you to forward to
me ASAP the following information below as to establish a mutual
understanding;

1)Your Residential/Office Address.
2)Your Telephone/Fax Number.
3)Your profession.
4)Your Age/Marital status.

So if you know that you can handle this project confidentially email
me at frankwilson36@yahoo.com I am looking forward to receiving
your interesting response on this project as this will greatly enrich
both of us at the end.


BEST REGARDS,
MR. FRANK WILSON.

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