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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: "Miss.Chinenye Aku" <jkl.hu@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: "Miss.Chinenye Aku" <misschinenyeaku@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 01:10:01 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Respond to me as soon you read this mail !.


 Dear Sir/Madam,

Respond to me as soon you read this mail !.

I am Miss.Chinenye Aku i am sorry for reaching you unexpected but this is a mater of immediate attention please give me your little attention for this will be very benefiting opportunity for us, I work-in a financial institution here as an accountant,. On Tuesday 30 September 2010 i discovered an dormant account with a huge sum of money in it ($3.2 Million Dollars), in my department, this account have been dormant for many years,

After the discovery. investigate if i can reach the owner, with detail address attached to the account and know why he left such huge sum of money go dormant without investing it or fix a deposit to generate good interest for him, when i commence the inquiry i find out that the owner of this account Mr. De-don Gerry has died, he was a executed for drug related offenses years back, as he died by hanging by the then government regime, since then the money remain dormant, and no one knows about it .
Dear friend in this situation I need your confidential assistance to enable us claim this fund remotely through legally filing for claims i will present you as the Kin, a local lawyer here will provide us required backing document, since there is no next of kin declared and no one knows about it over the years now.

I will use my position as a staff to influence the process., With you as the NEXT OF KIN and my effort as a worker here success success of this deal will be achieved, we shall workout the claim share the fund among our self.

To do this is very simple i will give you more details upon receipt of your mail However respond to me as soon you get this mail am waiting to give you more details. Private Email:  misschinenyeaku1@gmail.com

Thanks yours sincere.
Miss.Chinenye Aku

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