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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: legaldpt@cbpwm.com
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:16:05 -0600
Subject: news letter

Dear Sir,
Foremost, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Let me first introducing myself properly to you. It may surprise you
receiving this letter from me since we have no previous correspondence. I
am Barrister Giorgio Punzo personal Attorney to my late client who deals
on petroleum in Libya. My late client made a number time fixed deposit of
2 years at commercial bank of Qatar private wealth management with the sum
of USD$10.5M which after 2 years, shall be withdraw together with the
interest generated.

Immediately the expiration of his time deposit, the civil war erupted in
Libya which hindered my effort to get in touch with him but since after
the Libya civil war ended, I have made several efforts to locate him but
all effort proves abortive, it was early last year that I found out that
my client was among the dead in refugee boats that sink late March 2011 on
Italian coast (Lampedusa) while they were trying to escape the heat of the
war and since ever I confirmed his death, as a true Christian, I have made
several efforts to locate his family members but it wasn’t possible
because my late client did not nominate his next of kin when he deposited
his money so all effort to locate his family members became impossible.
Actually, i got your contact information through private search while
searching for my late client relatives.

Further to my explanation, I must first make an apology for this
unsolicited letter to you. I am conscious that this is certainly not a
predictable way of approach to foster a relationship of trust but because
of the circumstances and urgency surrounding the claims.
The Bank has issued me a final notice to contact the next of kin or the
account will be declared unserviceable and the fund will be diverted to
the Bank treasure, So far all my efforts to get hold on someone related to
my client has proved abortive hence I contacted you since you have the
same family name with my late client asking for your consent to present
you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund so
that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.

All the legal documentations to back up your claim as my late client's
Next of Kin shall be procured by me, all I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us achieve this goal.
I wish to intimate you with the fact that the account officer of my late
client is aware of his death and he is willing to collaborate with me
hence 20% of this money is to go to him, while the remaining 80% is shared
between us.
Please if you are interested to work with me in this confidential project,
kindly forward to me your identification document copy, office tell/fax
numbers respectively and as well your mobile phone for fast communication
and I shall give you my late clients account officers contact for you to
confirm this story if you are interested to work with me in this
confidential project
Looking forward to your earliest reply,

G.Punzo
Barrister
Roman consultancy
Associate Firms
Via Nazionale 91, 00184 Rome, Italia
Tel: +39 694 800 862 Ext; 101,
Fax: +39 06 8918 4384
Mob; +39 328 37 24 161
Email: Giorgio.punzo@romanconsultancy.com
www.romanconsultancy.com

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