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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.Marco Konah <mmarcooknahh@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:34:33 +0100
Subject: LOOKING FOR INVESTMENT PARTNER


Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am Mr.Marco Konah,a Senior Management Staff in Foreign/ Operations Department with one of the leading banks here in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire (IVORY COAST.

A customer of our bank, an Oil Contractors/ Consultants with Ivorien National Petrolum Corporation operated a Domiciliary Account with our bank and made a numbered times(fixed) deposits amounting to US$19,750,000 (Nineteen Million, Seven Hundred & Fifty Thousand United States Dollars).

However,on investigation, it was discovered that the Customer died in a plane crash with his family and all attempt to trace any of his relations to come for the claim of this funds has proved abortive till date. This sum of US$19,750,000 Million is still lying in the Bank untouched and the INTEREST is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.For the past 8 years now,no one has ever come forward for the claim.

The purpose of contacting you is to seek your ACCEPTANCE to transfer the money into your account for YOU and ME to share because according to the Financial Law of this country,at the end of 10 years if nobody comes for the claim of this funds, the money will be declared unserviceable and then transferred to Federal Reserve Account through Central Bank for government use.It is for this reason that I contacted you.

You will be entitled to 30% of the total amount as your compensation after the transfer.Therefore,if you are interested to participate in this transaction,please reply immediately for more details.

Most importantly,note that you are not placed under any risk for your participation as all the Computer Programming Work will be done by me, indicating that you are the legitimate Beneficiary of this fund and immediately this fund is transferred to you, I will wipe off every information relating to this transaction. This Transaction has nothing to do with government of any country, the original owner of the account is dead,so feel very free to co-operate with me so that we shall reap the benefits at the end.

Therefore if you are interested in this matter, please reply as soon as possible for more details. IMPORTANT NOTICE:PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: marcokonah@yahoo.com ONLY.

Thanks and God bless you,

Sincerely,

Marco Konah.

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