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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: "William Vereker" <william.ii@onet.eu>
Reply-To: williamavereker@mail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 06:28:16 +0100
Subject: William Vereker

From: William Vereker

Compliments of the day, I am contacting you for a mutual beneficial
business with believe you will not betray me at the end. I am William
Vereker; a member of the Group Executive Com-committee, 1 Finsbury Avenue
London, EC2M 2PP UBS Investment Bank plc. Here in England. During the
recent audition of bank accounts and services of our bank; I discovered
non-resident bank accounts which have not been operated for a long time.
After a discrete inquiry, I found out that the owner of this account was a
United States citizen Mr. Bob Watson, a business man who died with his
family in a car Accident On May 20th, 2006. Until now, nobody knows about
his bank account with UBS Investment Bank. This account holds (16,200.000,
00 GBP) Sixteen Million two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling
only.


I contact you as a foreigner; in order to arrange with you for the
transfer of this money out from the account, before our next audition of
bank accounts because If the bank management find out that this account
has been latent for these long, it will be frozen and the money will be
returned to the bank treasury, as unclaimed public funds. Therefore I want
you to stand as the "Foreign Beneficiary". I need your full co-operation
to make this transaction work out perfectly because the bank management is
ready to approve the immediate payment to whoever that would be presented
as the beneficiary to this money. A perfect transfer strategy will be put
in place in your name legally, so that nobody will suspect your claims.


With my positions and influence here in the bank; this money will be
re-profiled to your favor and transferred to any overseas bank account/s
you will nominate, but with an assurance from you that this money will
remain safe in your custody pending my arrival to join you for securing my
share. For your involvement in this deal, you will receive 35% of the
total amount. Kindly consider this offer immediately and send me your
information as follows;


1, Your Full Names,
2, your Contact address/country of residence,
3, your direct Mobile phone Number
4, your date of Birth
5, Your Occupation


So we can start re-profiling of the fund in your name as the heir
beneficiary. I will count on your sense of secrecy and confidentiality, in
order to avoid risky exposure, considering the sensitivity and magnitude
of this project.


I am anxiously looking forward to your urgent response, so we can start off.

Regards,

William Vereker

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