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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: "MR. FRANKLIN DIMA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info.igcmak@rocketmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:32:05 +0200
Subject: Re: My Dear Good Friend.

My Dear Good Friend,

I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent profitable business you will introduce me to. Like i told you in my previous mails to you that my name is MR. FRANKLIN DIMA, a national of India, I am working as an accountant general and head of the Auditing Dept of Bank Of Africa Cote D`Ivoire. Already i have forwarded to you my international passports for your view. So i will be here in this bank to back you up and give you all the information as the original next of kin to our late customer depositor, a National of your country Engineer Nasser Hanna, who used to work with an oil servicing company resident in Abidjan Cote D’ Ivoire.

My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated Train crash in the coasts of Abidjan in December 2010, in which all passengers on board died. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the internet, to see if I could locate any member of his family, hence I contacted you for same particular interest.

He had in his account in my branch the sum of ($7.8 Million US Dollars). Unfortunately, The bank have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank will declare the account unserviceable and thereby send the funds to the bank treasury. Non of his next of kin has come Forward to claim the money. Having noticed this, I have covered the account all this while. Now I want you (being a foreigner) to be fronted as one of his next of kin and forward your name and other relevant documents to be advised to you by this bank to attest to the Claim. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last (1) one years now. I will seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account valued at ($7.8 Million US Dollars) can be paid to you, and then you and I can share the money.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. In your reply mail, I want you to give me your full names, address, date of birth, telephone and fax numbers for proper communications, while I will furnish you with the whole procedures to ensure that the deal is successfully Concluded by you as I believing you will be honest to fulfill my final wish. All correspondence towards this transaction will be through, E-mail for other bank official staffs not to notice about the deal.

Please reply urgently, I await your earliest response in this matter.

Yours faithfully,
MR. FRANKLIN DIMA.

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