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: "Najib Omar" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <najibormalaw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 02:21:27 +0800
Subject: Good Day....

Good day to you,

My name is Barrister Najib Omar, an attorney at law.I apologize in advance for any inconveniences this may cause you.i am the Personal Attorney to late Engineer, who was a contractor here. He died as the result of a heart-related condition in 14th May 2012. His heart condition was due to the death of all the members of his family in the tsunami disaster on the 25th October 2010 in Sumatra Indonesia .

I have contacted you to assist in distributing the money left behind by my client, who share the same last name as yours before it is confiscated or declared un-serviceable by the bank where this deposit valued at Eleven Million, three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$11.3 Million). This Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin, or the account will be confiscated. For more information, Please reply.

Best regards,
Najib Omar
(Advocate & Solicitor)

Anti-fraud resources: