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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: Abery Keith <firstbankforiengremittance@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:46:41 +0400
Subject: FROM MY DEAREST HEART

Hello my friend.

I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since we have never met before and you would also be asking why I have decided to chose you amongst the numerous internet users in the world, precisely I cannot say why I have chosen you but do not be worried for I come in peace and something new is about to happen in your life right from now onward and also to the lives of others around you if only you peruse my below message carefully.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography, I am Mary Abery Keith, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Keith Abery who died in a Plane crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while they were flying from New York to Geneva. Please see site below for more information.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

After the death of my husband I became the Head of his investment and now that I am old and weak I have decided to spend the rest of my life in my Ranch before i finally leave the world, but before the death of my husband we had a plan to use the last days of our lives to donate half of what we have worked for to the less privilege and charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family members and close friends, and it is so unfortunate that my husband is not alive today to do this with me and I am very weak and old now, hence I have decided to do this philanthropic work on behalf of my late husband.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charity homes and to some of the less privilege in different countries.

Despite the agreement between my late husband and I to give aid to the deprived, we also agreed to render support to an individual we have not meet before in life due to the fact when we were still young in life we receive an anonymous help from an individual we did not know and which we have not being able to know till date, the impact we got from such gesture made us to do same.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to know me because I have just concluded the assignment which my husband and I have agreed upon before his sudden death and you happened to be the beneficiary of our last WILL, hence I need you to do me a favor by accepting our offer.

I deposited some fund in the first Bank of Nigeria Plc, the sum of 5,800,000.00 (Five Million Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds) with First Bank in Nigeria since twenty three weeks ago for onward transfer to you, but i was very ill and sick so i could not send you an email in order to notify you about the fund i have deposited for you in a transit bank account with first bank,nevertheless all you need to do now is to contact with First Bank of Nigeria Plc as soon as possible to arrange an immediate money transfer of 1,800,000.00 (One Million Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds) to you in your country or residence right away.

Use the below information to contact first bank immediately.


Contact person incharge of your fund deposit:Dr.Benson Azikiwe
Foreign Remittance Director.
FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
Email Address:firstbankforiengremittance@yahoo.com
Phone: +234-8152851027

This is the security deposit code of your fund: (FSTBNK/0225/NG) for your draft, you are to also present it to them for verification before delivery.

Please, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay in sending your payment accross to you.

Be also notified that I will no longer be reading my emails or surfing the internet as I have retired completely from the outside world to my ranch, at this moment I have nothing to do with cars, emails and other luxuries, all further correspondence should be forwarded to the bank.

Yours Faithfully,
Mary Abery Keith


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