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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: o.note0@laposte.net
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:27:49 +0100
Subject: From Royal Bank Of Scotland Reply.


Compliment of the the day.
I am Mrs Alice Afred I work with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
My reason of contacting you is for my urgent need for a foreigner fromyour location, who can sincerely and confidentially assist me toexecute a big opportunity that recently occurred in our Bank.On the 25th of December 2003, our customer Mr. Michael Rhonda Bromley, hiswife and their three Children were involved in a Benin plane crash andunfortunately lost their lives.
Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate anyof my clients extended relatives but all efforts was just in vain.Although he left no record of any next of kin or closed relatives.
I have made several attempts to locate any of our customer extendedrelatives, which had proved unsuccessful. After these severalunsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over theInternet, to locate any member of his Family hence I contacted you. Ihave contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind bymy late Client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceableby the bank, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
These huge deposits were lodged particularly, with the "RBS" where thedeceased had an account valued at about 4.7 Million Euros (FourMillion Seven Hundred Thousand Euro).The Bank has issued a finalnotice to provide our customer next of kin/relatives or have theaccount confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating therelatives for over six years.
Now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of thedeceased since you bear the same last name so that the proceeds ofthis account valued at 4.7 million Euros can be paid to you and thenyou and I can Share the money 30% to you and 70% to me.
I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimatearrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, but youmust also agree not to disclose or pass any information related tothis business to anybody for security reason and to avoid eye brow,and the way we are going to achieve this is.Please feel free tocontact me immediately via my private email address below,
mrsalicealfred44@gmail.com
Waiting to hear from you soonest as to enable us proceed
Mrs Alice Afred.

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