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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: "Daniel Anderson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <danderson@blumail.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:53:21 -0500
Subject: Business Proposal.

Hello dear,
Something that I feel is not appropriate is about to happen at the First Equity Development bank here in London.USD6.7million(six million seven hundred and twenty thousand United States dollars) originally deposited here by a contractor staff of Abu Dhabi from the United Arab Emirates is about to be turned over to the British treasury.This is because the contractor staff Jin Zhang,is dead.

Mr. Jin Zhang died early last year from heart failure here in London.I was actually the legal counsel attached to him by the bank.so at his death,I was asked to search out if there was any record showing who is a relative that could inherit the money.As secretive as Jin Zhang is,he never left any records.This has made the bank executives(for their own selfish reasons) to believe that Jin Zhang was perhaps a
terrorist living under assumed names.I know that it is not true because I had the opportunity to know him well.

Well,I am against the money being turned over to our government(a government that has enough already).So I want to substitute you as the next of kin.What I want to do is to present you as Jin Zhang's relative.

I will provide the necessary legal documentation to back up this claim,and send to you as the bank requests them,but on no account must it be known that I am working with you.

My take here is that after you must have received the money,you will give me 55% of the total sum,and keep 45%.Whatever expenses you and I must have incurred in the course of getting this done,will be well deducted before we can share the money in the percentage I have outlined above.

I do not know if you are interested in getting this done.I can only assure you that there is no risk on your side. E-mail me on danderson@blumail.org for more information.

Whatever you think,just let me know quickly,so that if we will go ahead,I will provide you with the necessary information to proceed.If you will not,I just have to give up because the time is too short for me to find another person.

Daniel Anderson,
London.

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