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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: =?UTF-8?B?Ik1SIEpIT1JHRSI=?= <jhorgejames84@terra.com>
Date:
Subject:


Greetings to you and your family.
My name is (Mr.JHORGE JAMES), the = director general with the bank, Africa
Develop bank (A.D.B) Ouagadougou,= Burkina Faso, in West Africa. I am
contacting you to seek our honesty a= nd sincere cooperation in confidential
manner to transfer the sum of $15= million U.S.A dollars) to your existing or new bank account.This money belo= ngs to one of our bank client, a Libyan oil exporter who was
working wit= h the former Libyan government; I learn t that he was killed by
the revo= lutionary forces since October 2011. Our bank is planning to
transfer th= is entire fund into the government public treasury as unclaimed
fund if = nobody comes to claim the money from our bank after four years
without a= ccount activities by December 2014.

We did not know each other befor= e, but due to the fact that the deceased is
a foreigner, the bank will w= elcome any claim from a foreigner without any
suspect, that is why I dec= ided to look for someone whim I can trust to come
and claim the fund fro= m our bank.

I will endorse your name in the deceased client file her= e in my office which
will indicate to that the deceased is your legal jo= int account
business partner or family member next of kin to the decease= d and
officially the bank will transfer the fund to your bank account wi= thin
seven working days in
accordance to our banking inheritance rule= s 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 cou= ntry to collect my share after the fund
is transferred to your bank acco= unt in your country. I hope that you will
not disappoint me after the fu= nd 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 to = discuss more details on how we can proceed on this project
(FILL THIS FO= RM BELLOW PLEASE AND RESEND IT TO ME).
1) Your Full Name,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,= ,,,,,,,,,
2) Your Age,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
3) Marital Status,,,,= ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
4) Your Cell Phone Number,,,,,,,,,,,,,
5) Your Fax Nu= mber,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
6) Your Country,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
7) You= r Occupation,,,,,,,,,,,,,
8) Sex,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
9) Your Religio= n,,,,,,,,,
  

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