|
|
joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
|
"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:
- An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
- This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- This email message is a next of kin scam.
- This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- frankkabore10@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Mr Frank Kabore <frankkabore20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: frankkabore10@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:21:40 -0400
Subject: Attention please;
Greetings to you and your family.
My name is Mr. Frank Kabore, The Director General of, Africa Develop
bank (ADB)
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso in West Africa. I am contacting you to seek
our honesty
and sincere cooperation in confidential manner to transfer the sum
of 10.5 (Ten million five hundred thousand Dollars) to your existing
or new bank
account.
This money belongs to one of our bank client, a Libyan oil exporter who was
working with the former Libyan government; I learn t that he was killed by the
revolutionary forces since October 2011. Our bank is planning to transfer this
entire fund into the government public treasury as unclaimed fund if nobody
comes to claim the money
From our bank after four years without account activities by June 2015
We did not know each other before, but due to the fact that the deceased is a
foreigner, the bank will welcome any
Claim from a foreigner without any suspect, which is the reason I decided to
contact you and know if you can handle This business so that the fund can be
transfer into your position bank account I will endorse your name in the
Deceased client file here in my office which will indicate to that the
deceased
is your legal joint account business partner or family member next of
kin to the
deceased and officially the bank will transfer the fund into your bank account
within seven working days in accordance to our banking inheritance rules and
fund claim regulation.
I will share 40% for you and 60% for me after the fund is transferred to your
bank account; we need to act fast to
Complete this transaction within seven days. I will come to your country to
collect my share after the fund is
Transferred to your bank account in your country I hope that you will not
disappoint me after the fund is transferred to your bank account in
your country.
Please I want you to send me your private phone number so that I can call you
and discuss more details on how we can proceed on this project.
Waiting for your
urgent response today; Reply me through my private id (frankkabore10@gmail.com
Yours sincerely
Mr Frank Kabore
|
Anti-fraud resources:
