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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: "Bixnfleisch" <hulzemarie@mail2Europe.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 19:49:52 +0200
Subject: Marie Hulze

Hello,
I want to solicit your cooperation to transfer the sum of $US30,000,000.00
(Thirty million United States Dollars)
that belongs to a deceased foreigner a national of your country. I am an
auditor and the personal account officer to the deceased,
and I believe that you and I can work out this deal without any hitches if
only you will be trustworthy and follow my instructions/advice
for a smooth success of this deal. During the course of our auditing in the
bank, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank
in the year 2009. Since then nobody has operated on this account again.
After further investigations, I discovered that the owner of the account
died intestate
(without a heir), hence the fund is floating without a beneficiary.
The owner of this account is late Mr. Gilliard James Durward, a foreigner a
national of your country,
and he died since 2009, and no other person knows about this account or
anything concerning it.

The amount involved is ($US30 Million). I am contacting you to stand as the
next of kin to late Mr. Gilliard so that the $US30 Million will be released
to you
because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, but can only
be approved to a foreigner because the owner of the account:
Mr. Gilliard is a foreigner. At the conclusion of this deal, you will take
30% of the total amount, while 70% will be for me.
I need you to send me a copy of your identity such as international
passport or Drivers license, contact address, phone, fax, and bank account
details
to enable me submit it to the attorney who will obtain the Letter of
Administration from the probate registry that will empower him to represent
you in the claim.
Please note that it is also very important that we meet face to face once
the change of ownership status of the $US30,000,000.00
has been legally established in your favour and the fund transferred to
your nominated bank account so that we can have a round-table meeting based
on my interest
to invest a vast majority of my share in Real estate business through your
company as I have the intention to relocate there with my family once we
have achieved this goal.
Please keep this deal secret!
Sincerely,
Marie Hulze
mariehulze@mail2europe.com

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