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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: josephkabore <josephkabore10000@gmail.com>
Reply-To: josephkabore1000@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:25:46 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?Q29uZmlkZW50aeKAi2FsIFJlc3BvbmQu?=




Good day!

I am Mr Joseph K director auditing and accountingdepartment" bank of Africa (boa) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso .Idiscovered the sum of seven million, two hundred thousand dollars(usd7.2) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank the fund hasbeen lying in a suspense account without anybody coming to put claimover the money since the account owner late, Mr Salla khat fromLebanese who was involved in the December 28th 2007 Benin car crash.

itis therefore, upon this discovery that i decided to take this ultimatumand make this business proposal to you as the fund will be release toyou as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety andsubsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and i don't wantthis money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill the bankingrules here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after sevenyears, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury asunclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in thisbusiness is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was aforeigner and a Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

Therefore,I am soliciting for your assistance to come forward as the next of kin.I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the beneficiaryrespect of the provision of your account and service rendered, 60% willbe for me. Then immediately the money transferred to your account fromthis bank, I will proceed to your country for the sharing of the fund.


Yours faithful,

Mr Joseph K

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