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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: yannik camil <yannikcamil@mynet.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:34:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: HI


!! ATTENTION / PLEASE !!!
I am Rev. Yannik Camil an attorney for the law, personalattorney to late (MR.Wan Grey Ebers ) , a citizen of yourcountry, who used to work with lotto Development Company in Lome,Togo. Here in after shall be referred to my client. On 21 April 2013,my client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a caraccident along Nouvissi Express Road.All occupants of the vehicleunfortunately lost there lives. Since then I have made severalinquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my clients extendedrelatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these severalunsuccessful attempts,
I decided to track your name over the Internet, to locate anymember of his family so that the bank here may do the transaction to him or her that is why I contacted you.my late client late (MR.Wan Grey Ebers ) so that is the amount of U.S.$2 000.000.00 Two millions dollars which he left behind in republic of Togo bank in his name through transfer, will be been immediately release to you.I want to let you know that there is nothing to be afraid of here because the government have also give me 48 hours working day to enable me to locate any member his family and if i do not see that the money it should been cancel out to his account.now why i am doing this is that i have been working with late(MR.Wan Grey Ebers )9yrs as a lawyer he is very rich before his death and i have been locating his family through the internet over September 22th 2014 and there where no body to locate.now what you need to do just follow my instruction before the money will be transfer into your account,
NOTICE:YOU HAVE TO SEND YOUR BANK DETAILS THROUGH THIS BANK EMAIL LISTED HERE BELOW SO THAT THE WILL ABLE TO START THE TRANSACTION INTO YOUR ACCOUNT BELOW IS THE EMAIL YOU WILL SEND IT TOO!!
Tel/Fax: +228-222-269-69Tel/Fax: +228-222-69-69/+228 960-325-51Email: utb-uniontogolaise@outlook.fr
YOUR FULL NAME ..............................................YOUR BANK NAME ..................................................YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER.......................................YOUR ADDRESS....................................................SWIFT CODE...........................................................YOUR AGE................................................................YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE ..............................FAX NUMBER............................................................
PLEASE NOTICE THAT YOU WILL SEND YOUR BANK DETAILS THROUGH THE BANK  EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW HERE  utb-uniontogolaise@outlook.fr
 FOR THE SECURITY PROPOSE SO THAT THE WILL START YOUR TRANSFER  IMMEDIATELY  
REGARDSRev Yannik Camilchamber

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