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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: "Mr.David W Robert" <mrbenwilliam232@videobank.it>
Reply-To: mrdavidrobert@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:01:06 +0800
Subject: Urgent Reply

From Mr.David W Robert,

I am an investment consultant working with Lloyds TSB here in London.
During one of our periodic auditing I discovered a dormant account with
holding balance of 52,000,000 (Fifty Two Million British Pounds) on further
investigation I discovered that this account belongs to Late President Lech
Kaczynski, a Polish President who unfortunately died in a Plane crash with
his wife and his top officials on their way to Russia. the account has no
other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the
account is a secret account. No other person knows about this account or
any thing concerning it. I wish to transfer this money into a safe
foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a
local person here, but to a foreigner who has information about the
account. which I shall give to you upon your positive response.

This fund has not been operated for the past 2 years now. As at this
moment, I am constrained to issue more details about this business until
your response is received.

For more information view the website;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8612825.stm and I look forward to hearing
from you as soon as possible if you are interested, as well on replying
send me the followings.

Bank Name:.................
Bank Address:.............
Account No:.............even if it is an empty existing account is ok
Beneficiary Name:.....
Swift Code:.......
Age and Sex:.....
Occupation:........
Private phone numbers:..for easy communication.
Routing Number: .......
State & Country:....

Thank you for your time and attention.
Warmest regards,
Mr.David W Robert

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