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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: Norbert David <norbertdavid2012@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: Norbert David <norbertdavid51@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:53:50 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Hello Good day




 
 
Hello Good day





I am Mr Norbert David working with Banque Internationale Afrique Togo here in Lome-Togo.
My reason for contacting you is to stand as the next of kin and receive in your bank account the sum of Ten Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only (US$10,500,000.00) which one of our bank foreign customers died and left for past five years now. I am the bank account officer to the late customer and since I heard of his death, I have been expecting any of his brother, sister or family relatives to come and claim the fund but to my greatest surprise none of his family relatives has come or apply for transferring of the fund to them.


The late customer nationalised here in Togo as an engineer and he died with his wife and only daugther in a car accident. I noticed from the inquiry I have made so far that this customer has no other relative to receive the money apart from his wife and daughter who has died with him in the accident. Now I will like to present your name and contacts to our bank as one of his family relatives / next of kin since our bank law stipulates in times of death,that the depositor's family relatives is entitled to receive the money as family inheritance.





Kindly reply me immediately you  received my message (  with your phone numbers as soon as you read this mail so that I can call you,  for more explanation.


Someone from my country can not stand as the next of kin since the late customer was a foreigner, so I will like you to stand as his next of kin and our bank will transfer the fund into your bank account or to any new bank account you may open for this purpose and both of us will share the money 50%-50%. For your information there no risk involved.









Thanks as I hope for your immediate response.




Regards.





Mr Norbert David

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