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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: "Mr.Peter A. Sands." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <peter.sand75@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:50:27 -0700
Subject: Good day,../



Good day,

Kindly ready carefully for better understanding.

I am Mr.Peter Sands, the formal group Chief Executive Director of standard Chartered Bank UK.I personally discovered a dormant account with a total sum of $59,000,000.00 (FIFTY NINEO MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) during our Bank's Annual Year Account Auditing. I held the position of CEO from November 2006 to June 2015.


The owner of this dormant account died on 6th May 2008. Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated in this account till date.Moreover, this account has NO next of kin attached to it. Definitely, this fund will be confiscated by our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS if it remains dormant for a period of (10) years without any claim. In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring this dormant fund out of our bank to avoid confiscating this fund.

I am contact you because you bear the same name with my late owner of this funds which will make it very easy for me to move this funds to you designated bank account without any problem.



If you are willing to cooperate in this project, I will give you details immediately as soon as I hear from you with the following
information in order to proceed.


1) Full Name
2) Age
3) Marital Status
4) Cell Phone/Fax Number
5) Your Country
6) Occupation
7) Sex
8) Your Company name


Please note that you are required to keep this transaction very confidential as secret is the suscess in business.

Upon the suscessful transfer of this funds to your designated bank account I will come over to your country for us to shear and invest the funds in lucrative and profitable business.

Yours truly,

Mr.Peter A. Sands.

petersands106@yahoo.com


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