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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: "Mr Igo Kabore" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <igo_kabore6@w.cn>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:10:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Confidential Email

Dear Partner,
 
I am Mr Igo Kabore,the Bank Manager of a development bank in ouagaduoguo burkina Faso .please i hope that this will not be a misplacement of trust hence I make this urgent and very confidential business proposal for you. On June 6, 2009, a Libya Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the British Petroleum Corporation Hafeez Al Sadique.
Made a numbered time (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months,valued at US$18.500,000.00 (Eighteen Million, Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my branch.
 
Upon maturity in June, 2011,I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.After a month,we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the British petroleum corporation that HAFFEZ AL SADIQUE died as a result of when he traveled to his town Misrata in Libya as one of the Libya elites opposing the tyrannical leadership of Muammar Gaddafi.
On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a will, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr HAFFEZ AL
SADIQUE. did not declare any Next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper work in our bank here in Burkina Faso.
 
This sum of US$18.500,000.00 have been floating as unclaimed since july 2011 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones. According to the British law at the expiration of 4 Months it will be transferred to the  national treasure, the money will revert to the ownership of the Burkina Government if nobody applies to claim the fund and the one year is the end of December 2011 with nine month validation period which will finally expire by August 2012.
 
Consequently, my proposal is that i want to seek your consent as a foreigner to stand in as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the deceased so that the bank will transfer the money to your designated account.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. I have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that the business is risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for myself and for investment purpose as i will invest my share in your country .The sharing of the funds will be based according our agreement within both of us.
As soon as i receive an acknowledgment of receipt of this message in acceptance of my mutual business proposal, I will furnish you with the necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any conflict. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you bearing in mind my position as any attempt to sabotage me will automatically lead to lost of all my life effort in the banking industry. betray me will make me suffer the rest of my life.
PLEASE,APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT DOING BUSINESS OVER THE INTERNET IS RISK.ENDEAVOR TO SEND YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER IN YOUR REPLY TO ME WITH MY PRIVATE
Thanks
Igo Kabore

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