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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: "Mrs. Lornal L. Varona" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lornalvarona@ymail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:11:26 -0700
Subject: Re: Request,


Dearest,

Happy New Year to you, my name is LORNA L. VARONA. I am a Filipina by Nationality but base and work in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) with Noor Islamic Bank, as a Branch manager in Dubai. I got your contact during my search for a reliable person who can assist me on this project,

As we are about to close our yearly bank records, I discovered that one of our customers by name Mr. Pascal Koupaki from Africa who was cought with a very big amount of cocain and sentenced to death early this year left a large amount of money in his account in my Branch...$8,562,200 (Eight million, five hundred and sixty two thousand, two hundred USD) without any beneficiary. With my power as the manager I was able to move the fund to an international bank in Malaysia by name CHASE BANK (CCB) without a beneficiary because of my position and the nature of the country I am living in.

I am writing to you now because the bank contacted me and asked me to present a beneficiary before 31st of January 2012 so as to transfer the Fund into the person's account immediately as the begin business this New Year. Also an officer of the bank I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account or company Account. My Attorney will guide you on how to apply to The Private Bank in Malaysia for the Account Closure/bank-to-bank remittance of this fund to your designated bank account and this transfer could be achieve within 72hrs. If you concur with this proposal, be assured that it is 100% risk free and I intend for you to retain 40% of the funds while 60% shall be for me. If you wouldn't mind I may still want to invest my share in your company's business.

Your earliest response would be appreciated on the regards.

LORNA L. VARONA
PH +971556726899
E-mail: lornalvarona@ymail.com
Please for security reason I want us to talk on email.

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