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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 Robert Kudjo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <r_kudjo@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:48:36 -0400
Subject: Atten Friend, Your Urgent Reply Is Needed!!

Dear learned Friend,

Firstly I would like to apologise for contacting you out the blue for a confidential business deal. My name is Robert Kudjo I’m a saving Banker with Barclays Bank Ghana. I discovered an abandoned sum of Eleven Million USD ($11,000,000,00) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died since 5 years ago, and since then none of his relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir.

However my bank cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claims as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next of kin to the deceased. I will work out the major document THE IRREVOCABLE AND UNCONDITIONAL PAYMENT ORDER in your name and accordingly transfer the fund to your over sea's account respectively.

Note there are many others who snatched ill-gotten funds from sales of blood diamonds and gold in banks. Rather than reporting such funds to the relevant authorities, who may at the end of the day misappropriate same for personal use one way or the other, I prefer to act in this manner so I can get a certain percentage. As you can notice this is confidential matter the sharing ratio is 50/50.


I need you to provide me the following Information.......;


Your full name: .................
Your country: ...................
Your phone Number: .............
Your age: .......................
Your occupation: ................
Position:………...


As soon as you provide the information I will be able to proceed with the deal. And will as well attached the proof of funds letter, passport and my bank official E-mail for your legal perusal.

Regards,

Robert Kudjo.
Saving Banker

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