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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: "AMOS.EXCEL" <kamilraman@aol.jp>
Reply-To: amos.excel001@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:32:49 GMT
Subject: URGENT RESPOND NEEDED


Greetings to you my good friend,

I am Mr. Amos Excel, from Ouagadougou Burkina Faso .

This is to inform you that I work in united bank for Africa here in Burkina Faso.

I decide to release this information out to you my good friend, because there is a fund that was credited in the ATM department here in our custody, which is the sum of $8.6 million US dollar inside the depositors account through an ATM AFRIC CARD by one of our customer who dead in an air crash recently in Mali.

So after the incident, the managing director of this noble bank try to reach out to the family of this young man in united state of America to direct them on how they can receive their late brother's fund that is in our custody here in the united bank of Africa.

Unfortunately, the information we have could not reach out to them so ever since no body have come regarding to the claim of the fund of this late young man, so the reason why I release out this information is that the director of this noble bank has decided that if there is no body to come for the claim of the said fund, before December 22 of this year 2014 the fund will automatically be come the bank property.

So this are the reason why I want the both of us to do the best we can to hurry up and claim the fund without any delay.

Note: please you have to keep this business top secret to your self because if this noble bank get to know that I was the one that give you this information, they mit not release the fund to you and I will also loss my job because of this act.

Finally, the amount that the director of this noble bank stated for the delivering of this ATM VISA AFRIC CARD to any of the relative of this late brother, that apply for the release of the fund before they can process the delivering, him or her have to pay the sum of 450 US dollar before the ATM VISA AFRIC CARD can be delivered to the person without any delay.

Without this amount been paid, they can not release the fund to you and if you know that you are not capable to make the payment of the delivering please do not reply me to save this information. I repeat my self do not reply me if you are not capable.

And if you capable to do it, Am assuring you that I will guard you and you will not regret of doing this business with me, I will give you the email address of the ATM department.

Waiting to hear from you

Best Regards

Mr. Amos Excel



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