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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: mrjbala@gmail.com
Reply-To: mrjbala1@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 23:42:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ARE YOU CAPABLE TO RECEIVE THIS MONEY???




Greetings to you,

My name is Mr.Jackson Bala, from Ouagadougou Republic of Burkina Faso, Presently I work in the Bank as telex manager but about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life but I am sceptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger. You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers,

Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts, so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after the transfer.

I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control. They laundered over $nine Hundred Million Dollars during the process .As I am sending this message to you; I was able to divert thirteen Million Five Hundred Dollars ($13.5m) to an escrow account with forged name, and the name i used there was Belma peter,

I decided to make this proposal to you requesting if you can be honest with me to enable me release this money to you then retire and come over to meet you in your country immediately the transfer is done, please don’t be afraid i'm promising you that with my banking experience this transfer will be done smoothly with out any problem. all i need is your williness, trust and coperation.
 reply urgently so as to tell you what next to do because there is no much time to delay, i need your informations such as, Full name, telephone, occupation, age,country to make the neccessary changes to this fund here in my bank and forward a form you have to send to my bank as a mark of application to receive your overdue payment.

Waiting to hearing from you urgently
Remain bless,
Mr. J Bala


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