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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: Barrister Ramos Gomez <bzs81@b3d.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <ramos2gomez@qq.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 02:58:28 -0700
Subject: RESPONSE TO ME PLEASE.

Good day,

Compliment of the day. Firstly, I must solicit your
confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its
nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though
I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any
one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well.

Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Barrister
Ramos I. Gomez a personal attorney to Late Ms. Ellen Smith,
herein referred to as my late client. This email might come
as a surprise to you, since there was no previous
correspondence between us. My purpose of contacting you is
for you to help secure the funds left behind by my late
client, to avoid it being confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the Bank in Spain where this fund valued
(Eighteen Million One hundred thousand Euros) was deposited by
my client before her death.

The Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin
or the account will be declared unserviceable and the fund
diverted to the Bank treasury, So far all my efforts to get
hold of someone related to her has proved abortive. I am
actually asking for your consent to present you to the Bank
as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund, so
that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you
(bearing in mind that Next of Kinship is not limited to
relations of the deceased, nor is it confined to the circuit
of parental relationship, rather it is by choice of the
benefactor as regards to whom she wish to WILL it to either
formally by write up, or informally by secret information
disclosure to beneficiary be him/her a business partner,
relation, kinsmen, friend or well wisher).

I shall provide all the documents to back up the claim as my
client's Next of Kin. All I require is your honest
cooperation and commitments to enable us achieve this
transaction. I wish to point out that I want 10% of this
money to be shared among charity Organizations, while the
remaining 90% would be shared equally between us. This
transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as
the client’s attorney to guarantee the successful
execution of this transaction.

Upon receipt of your response via email (ramos2gomez@qq.com), I
will provide you with details and relevant documents that
will help you understand this transaction.

Warm regards,

Barrister Ramos I. Gomez
c/ Parellades, 39 1r 1a | 08870
Sitges Barcelona - Spain.

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