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: Yasir Khan <dr.yasirkhan2020@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dr.yasirkhan2012@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 01:38:49 +0100
Subject: I Need Your Urgent Assistance.

*Dear Friend,

With due honour to your personality, I know this message will come to you
as a surprise, I am auditing and accounting manager in bank of Africa
(BOA), foreign remittance section Ouagadougou Burkina Faso . I hope that
you will not expose or betray this trust and confidential that I am about
to impose on you for the mutual benefits of our families.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ( $10.5 Million
United State Dollars ) into your bank account within 6 to 8 banking days.
This money has been dormant for years in our bank without any body come for
the claiming of the fund. I want the bank to release the money to you as
the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) died
along with his supposed next of kin in air crash on July 2006.

I don't want the money to go into our bank treasurer account as an abandon
fund. So this is the reason why I contacted you so that the bank can
release the money for you as the next of kin to the deceased customer.
Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it
if you are not interested.

Upon the receipt of your reply! I will give you full details on how the
business will be executed and also note that you will have 40% of above
mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business with me and I will
change your id as you want it, I am waiting for your next reply with your
information.

Note that 10% will be set aside for any expenses that may arise in the
process before the fund will get into your bank account such as telephone
calls bills ( etc ) while the rest 50% will be for me, I look forward for
your response or call, please fill your information bellow , thanks and
have a nice day.

1. Name in full:...................
2. Address:..........................
3. Nationality:......................
4. Age:.................................
5. Sex..................................
6. Occupation: ....................
7. Marital status:..................
8. Phone..............................
9. Fax:.................................

Yours Faithfully,
Dr . Yasir Khan
Accounts & Audit department
Bank of Africa .
*

Anti-fraud resources: