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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: "Bruno Cavadini" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <brunocavadini@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:16:34 -0500
Subject: GOOD BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL

Dear Sir,
 
Permit me to inform you of my desire in going into good and credible business relationship with you, your information and contact was received from the internet search engine business directory, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction based on trustworthiness; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret, though I know that a transaction of this magnitude and nature will make any one apprehensive or worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well and clearly perfected at the end of the day.
 
However, I work as an investment consultant with the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) AG Zurich at their offshore department, I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account and if you are capable of keeping the TOP SECRET, during one of our period of auditing, we discovered dormant accounts withholding balance of approximately $750,000.000.00 {Seven hundred and Fifty million US Dollars), which we can easily transfer into your account and share with you without any problem, the amount could be any agreed sum out of the total amount as stated above if not all, thereby, you need to create a new bank account or send an existing bank account information, in order that, we will use it to prepare the payment documents and secure the payment approval on your name or with the name of your company as the legal beneficiary.
 
Towards this development, we are aware of internet scams where names of big banks or corporate individuals are being used to defraud innocent victims, please note that any financial transaction not completed inside a bank or Government financial institutions could be a possible scam, for this reason, do always insist in doing all your legal transactions inside a bank under the supervision of genuine bank officers.
 
Apparently, if you are not familiar with Swiss Dormant Accounts and profile, please take a moment of your very busy schedule to read about Swiss dormant accounts on: website; www.crt-ii.org/2001_list/publication_list1_A.phtm or http://www.dormantaccounts.ch/, evidently, I am constrained to issue more details about this business pending when your response is received, if you know that you are capable to handle this large amount or small out of the huge amount by indication and trust, hitherto, if you can keep the secret and ready to take 40% of any amount that can be transferred into your account from the dormant accounts while my own share along with my group will be 60% respectively.
 
Furthermore, I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free and you can send an empty account to receive the funds, provided that the account is capable of receiving the incoming funds, hence, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate and legal perfected arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law down the road, bearing in mind that, said funds at bank are classified as dormant funds are free funds for those who have key information on how to benefit from such dormant accounts, otherwise, funds will be sent to NGOs because nobody is operating the accounts for upward of 10 years or more of which, the bank must have concluded investigation on such accounts to reach conclusion that the account has no heir and nobody knows about its existence.
 
To this end, the intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law. However, if this business proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology please, if on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with us as we intend not to hurt anybody financially, kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations.
 
Very truly yours,
 
Bruno Cavadini.

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