joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "General Baaqir Abdal-Majid." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gen.baaqir.abdalmajid51@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 13:30:11 -0700
Subject: From General Baaqir Abdal-Majid.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I faithfully write to you as I know this e-mail will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I urge you to carefully read through my communication as the decision you make after reading will go a long way to determine the future of my relationship and prospects with you.

I am General Baaqir Abdal-Majid, the Head of the Intelligence Directorate with the Iraqi Army. I’m in charge of all Intelligence networks with our troops in Iraq; we are on war against terrorist and Isis operation. I am currently leading the intelligence on the raid of some major Isis commanders’ homes in Iraq. Work has been so risky no doubt, and challenging as sometimes, we are faced with armed insurgents where we lose some soldiers during confrontation. I have had my own share of losses as I lost a friend whom I have known for 12 years.

On the 7th day of September 2014, at about 11: 00hrs during our patrol along some destroyed Isis tunnels, at the Iraqi border with Syria, we got an Intel about some Isis members camping within the border hiding in some undestroyed tunnels.. We invaded the place and after hours of gun battle, we captured three (3) of the Isis members, (7) were injured during the battle and In the process of torture they confessed they were ISIS members that works under “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi” the Isis leader.They took us to their cave which also serves as their camp; there we discovered five (5) metal boxes piled on top one another which were locked with a padlock each.

While we tried to force the box open, to my greatest surprise I discovered several guns, armor and amongst, two boxes contained bullets, one filled with hard drugs and the other two to my amazement contained some US Dollars which amounted to $21.5M after I and two of my colleagues counted them for several hours. I believed that the boxes are owned or are linked to the Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist.

Having told you this as my confidant, it will be my delight and pleasure if you will assist me towards actualizing my dream with this development. Unanimously, we agreed to keep this as a secret among ourselves, and agreed to get the money out of the country for ourselves but first, we have hidden the two boxes that contain the US dollars in a safe and untraced location already. Now, am DESPERATELY in need of a “RELIABLE and TRUSTWORTHY” person who would receive, secure and safe guard these box containing the US dollars for me until my assignment elapses.

I am aware of what your thoughts would be next but don’t conclude that yet because I am willing to guard and give you every logistics plans to follow in order to have hitched free in this deal. Also, I am not from any authority that would want to set you up just that I need your help and I assure you that this deal is 100% risk free.

My proposal to you is, if you are willing to help me receive the boxes (Money) you will be entitled to 20% of this fund in the end; Once again, I confide strictly in you and appeal that you keep this topmost secret so that we do not lose our lives.

With the assurances of my gratitude and compliance to the terms, I remain,


Very sincerely,
General Baaqir Abdal-Majid.

Anti-fraud resources: