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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: Rasool Tufail <rasooltufail@yandex.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:09:53 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: As Salaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatu


 Greetings in the name of Allah. My names are Mr. Rasool Tufail the director of Eco bank Burkina Faso. I we like to transfer ten million six hundred thousand dollars to your account, for me to come and invest with you there in your country. one Mr. Alimarimi Sami Mohamed of Libya man whose dose various Business in Burkina Faso made a fixed deposit of Ten Million, Six Hundred thousand Dollars with our bank on 31st June 2011 before he left to his country to visit his families, unfortunate to him their revolution began, and we has sent routine notification to his addresses we got no reply, as they have a new entering government our bank sent reminder and finally discovered from their Libyan ambassador in Burkina that Mr. Alimarimi Sami Mohamed and all his families was killed in bomb at Tripoli on 16th October 2011 by 5PM.

After further investigation it was discovered that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin was abortive. On further investigation, it was discovered that Late Mr. Alimarimi Sami Mohamed did not declare any next of kin or relatives in all his official documents with our Bank. And his total sum, of $10,600,000.00 is still in my bank here and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.

In accordance with the country banking laws guiding this bank states that if know body comes for this claim as the next of kin , the money should be revert to Burkina Faso government treasury as unclaimed fund. It is upon this respect I seek to present you as a foreign partner to stand as next of kin and my bank will transfer this money into your account, then upon your acceptance I shall send you all information’s how this deal would be carried out, The money will be shared in the ratio: Sixty percent for me, and forty percent for you.

I guarantee you that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement as I will use my position here to perfect the transfer successful into your account. I await your urgent response; your reply should contain your mobile number for essay communications.

Thanks and waiting for your reasonable reply

Yours brother Rasool Tufail
Mobile 002265906267

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