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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: aldebe baba <aldebe_baba5@msn.com>
Reply-To: aldebe_baba01@voila.fr
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 06:01:53 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.

Dear Friend.

Good-Times! I am writing this mail to you with due respect, trust and humanity, I appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter, which I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. I have a business of $20, 000, 000.00 (Twenty Million United States Dollars Only) to be transfer to your account for investment in your country.

You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially, because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our Bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa were diamond, gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts, I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer. I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of their Banking records from the Bank files, and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control.

They laundered over $380Million Dollars during the process. As I am sending this message to you; I was able to divert $20, 000, 000.00 (Twenty Million United States Dollars Only) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the Bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is, because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our Bank to transfer funds overseas. The said funds has been lying waste and I don't want to retire from the Bank without transferring this fund to a foreign account to enable me us claim it.

This fund will be shared between us in the ratio of 50% for me, 40% for you, while 10% for any expenses that will come-up during the transferring process of this fund into your account, There is no one coming to ask you about these funds because I secured everything and if you're willing to handle this deal with me, kindly get back to me with the followings; Your Full Name, Age and occupation, your Private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication/your personal picture and valid identity scan copy to enable me know whom am dealing with, your location and full contact address. I will send to you the letter of claim which you will apply directly to the Bank.

Note I want you to keep this business strictly confidential for security reasons, as you may know that the Bank doesn't know that I am the brain behind this transaction.

Best Regard.
Mr. Aldebe Baba.


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