joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Guenin, Steve" <SGuenin@hse.k12.in.us>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:14:23 -0500
Subject:



Greetings,
I am Wang Yan, the chief operations officer of the Private Banking Services Department at the Bank of China (BOC) United Kingdom. I write to you concerning a late customer who had an investment placed under our banks management 6 years ago. He died intestate and nominated no next of kin to inherit the title over the investments he made with my Bank and I have been assigned to locate possible family members of the Deceased and people
with close ties using all available means at my disposal.There is US$ 8,370,000.00 million Usd deposited, I alone have the deposit details, my proposal is I will nominate you as the funds beneficiary and we both share the proceeds in a 50/50 ratio. It is pertinent that you inform me ASAP whether or not you are interested in this proposal so I can provide you the complete details involved. You must appreciate my constrained from providing you with more detailed information at this point until I have confidence that you are interested in assisting me.Kindly respond to this message using my contact email below within reasonable time to afford us the opportunity to close this transaction.Email wang.yyan@hotmail.com<mailto:wang.yyan@hotmail.com>

Wang Yan.

________________________________
This e-mail and any attachments are from a sender at Hamilton
Southeastern Schools in Fishers, Indiana. They are intended for
the named recipients and may contain information that is
confidential or privileged under Indiana and federal law. Any error
in addressing or sending this e-mail is not a waiver of
confidentiality and does not consent to copying or distribution of
this e-mail or attachments. If you receive this e-mail in error,
please notify the sender of the error by return e-mail and delete this
e-mail and its attachments. If there is a need to speak to the
sender, please call [317] 594-4100.

Anti-fraud resources: