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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: "Gerrit Marie" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infomailgerrit@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:54:32 +0100
Subject: business deal,,97.67.164.157

Attention

My name is Gerrit Marie formerly working with the ING Bank The Netherlands
Branch, presently I am working with the Royal Bank Of Scotland Amsterdam Branch .
I have a proposal to discuss with you about a certain dormant bonded
bank account in our Bank. The bonded Account has a balance of $17.3Million
Dollars.

The owner of the above said bank account had died since 4 years now
and our bank could not locate any member of the deceased family till
date. Our bank is in the process of declaring the money as "Unclaimed
Funds, and would turn it over to the Dutch Government in the next coming
Banking Year,if we can not locate the next of kin of the Account Owner.
I certainly do not want this to happen because I am seriously in financial
needs,considering the fact that I am in a position to push out the funds
from our bank without any problem provided I can present a Beneficiary
that was named as the next of Kin of the original account owner.

It will be beneficial to all parties concerned if you agree to present
yourself as the Beneficiary of the account owner since all the details of
the innitial cash deposit will portray you as the next of kin or relative
of the Bonded Account Owner.

Consider this proposal as a privilege and let me know how much Percentage
of the funds you would like to take after for assistance in this transaction
Please ,If you would like to collaborate with me, then send me your

(1)Your Full Names................
(2)Your Home Address ....................
(3)Your Telephone Number ......................

to enable me to formally present you to our Bank's Management as the
Next-of-Kin and legal Beneficiary of the above abandoned fund

Yours truly
Gerrit Marie
Email:infomailgerrit@aol.com

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