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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: ogogo <mikeogogo32@live.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:49:25 -0400
Subject: RE INVESTMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY

Dear Sir


with due respect,I wish you a pleasant top of the day.I am Mr Mike Ogogo and I
serve as an Executive Director(treasury) with the Union Securities And
Brokers Plc

with the headquarters here in Lagos,About four and half years ago,l
was approached by a top
government official from the NNPC as director of the contract
verification panel

in the NNPC to help him lodge a huge sum of money to the tune of
twenty nine Million
United States Dollars in my bank as an over invoiced contract sum as I
was made to

understand that the Original Contractors who carried out various
contract jobs with the
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) were duly cleared and paid their
real contractual

amount by this panel and the over invoiced sum is what I was made to
help him lodge
and save in the treasury division which l did for him as I turned the
Funds around for
him by investing them in treasury bills,bonds and other financial
markets and this
yielded so much dividends and interest for him.

This man in question died in a plane crash few years ago with belview
airling in lagos.

Now that l am going on retirement,I canot lay clame of this funds,
i am forbidden by the banking laws to keep so such funds
in my account as l have thought professionally that l need a foreign

partner to help me stand as sole claimant to the funds as l am going
to put all machineries in place and with my position in the bank to

make this work once l get a go ahead from your end.I will like to
plead here that strict confidentiality and transparency is the only

key to making this transaction a huge success,l will offer you 15%
of the total sum as a partner.l could be reached via my private

email:mikeogogo32@yahoo.com. As we proceed i shall disclose to you
the man in question.


Sincerely

Mr Mike Ogogo.




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