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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: john smith <js99745@gmail.com>
Reply-To: john.s@worker.com
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:31:35 +0100
Subject: VERY CONFIDENCIAL:

Dear Friend,
How are you today and your family? i hope all is well, kindly pay attention and understand my aim of communicating with you today through this letter,my name is Mr.John Smith

Managing Director UK Security firm. i have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described here-under for our mutual benefit, and hope you will keep it a top secret 1f you know Mr Terry Ryan an American businessman, who came to our country Uk to invest and met his death,if you are the relative please 1ndicate by writing to us, for claim of fund he left on our security firm. because of the nature of the transaction, during the course of our company year auditing, i discovered an unclaimed/abandoned fund, sum total of $ 5,800,000(Five million, Eight hundred thousand dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who came to Uk to establish a firm (Late Mr.Terry Ryan) from your country who unfortunately lost his life and family in the plane crash.

Now our office has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that.
sincerely seek your consent to present you as the next of kin/Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account,valued at US$5,800,000 (Five million Eight hundred thousand dollars) can be brought to you, which we will share in these
Percentages ratio, 60% - 40% with our office
All that i require from you is your sincere co-operation; trust and utmost confidentiality to enable me conducts this transaction successfully.
I assured you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in your country and here in UK once the fund is transferred to your bank Account.

Upon your consideration and acceptance of this offer, please proceed immediately and send to us the following information.

Your Full Name,
Your Contact Address
Age and copy of your photo
Your direct Mobile telephone Number.

This information will enable us to upload your data into our computer database to reflect in the network system,so that your named will reflect as next of Kin/beneficiary of this fund and I will guide you on how to open communication with the company and make the claims for onward transfer of the fund to you, please note that we have few days to carry out this deal, your kind speedy response through my personal email: Will be highly appreciated.

best regards
John Smith
john.s@worker.com



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