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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: "Tetteh Tracey" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tettehtracey2009@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 05:40:05 -0400
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Friend,

My name is Tracey Tetteh, I am the Branch manager of the International Commercial Bank, Kumasi Branch, Ghana. I got your information during my search through the Internet. I am 31 years of age and still a Single mother. I only hope we can assist each other with my business offer. But If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it and don't reply to this email.

I had a secret affair with the Late President, Evan Attah Mills of Ghana with Capital Accra before his death. The Late President happens to have a domicillary account with my bank which i personally manage as his account officer in my branch and no one knows about this account because it was opened with a Business Name as the Late President wanted it to be a very secretive account because the funds where to be used for his second term political campaign in preparation for the Presidential elections in November, 2012.

To this, The total sum of Twenty Eight Million, Six Hundred and Forty Thousand Dollars (USD $28,640,000.00) is in the account and my head office does not know the original depositor and owner of the account in which this funds is in. I will like to present you as the owner of the account in order for us to have the funds transferred out of Ghana before the new government gets to find out about this funds and have it recovered.

As a Manager of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money to avoid questioning from the Government, My Bank, and the Burea of National Investigation how i came about such amount of funds which can send me to jail for life that is why i have contacted you for us to work hand in hand to have this funds transferred out of Ghana immediately. I am also willing and ready to offer you 35% of the total amount of funds as soon we have it transferred out of Ghana to any of your designated countries. Note there are practically no risk involved in this as it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your response I will detail you on how we can achieve it successfully.

Kind Regards,

Tracey Tetteh.

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