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: ericabim <ericabim@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: ericabim2@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:32:46 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I want us to achieve this together




Dear Friend,

I am Mr Eric a banker by profession and I am from Ivory Coast in West Africa and I was an account officier to one of our bank foriegn customer Paul Louis Halley who died along with his entire family on 6th December 2003 in a plane crash. View the website below:
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4537663.stm

Since then I have made several inquiries to his Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been Unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his Last name over the Internet, to see if I could locate any member of his family but all my effort was all in vain.

My particular interest is this huge Sum he deposited with our bank here , where the deceased has an account valued at about US $17 million United States dollars.Being his personal a/c Officier to the decease's bank account, the bank management has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin/beneficiary or else the bank will declare the account unserviceable and thereby forfeit the funds to the bank treasury

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for many years now, I hereby seek your consent (with due respect and Honor) to present you as my late client foriegn business partner so that the proceeds of his account can be paid to your bank account and then you and I will share the funds 40 % for you as foreign partner in respect to the provision of a foreign bank account for the urgent transfer of the funds to you as his business partner and 60 % will be for me.

The Banking law here stipulates that if such funds remained unclaimed after Eight to Ten years or above, the funds will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund and this was why I as the account officier is contacting you :

After the sucessful transfer of the funds into your bank account,I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as I have arranged, you will apply first to the bank as business partner or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name,your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the funds will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application which you will complete and forward to our bank management for the release of the funds to your bank account.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any kind of fear because I as the account officier will guide you with informations that will lead to our bank transfering the funds to you without delay.

Please treat this business with utmost confidentiality and you should contact me immediately if you can handle this deal for me.

Please make sure you keep this transaction as your top secret and make it confidential till we receive the fund into the account that you will provide to the Bank. Dont disclose it to any body, because the secrecy of this transaction is as well as the success of it.

I am waiting to hear from you urgently.

Yours in Service,

Mr Eric Abim.

Anti-fraud resources: