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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: FRANKLIN MORGAN <private4moss@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 02:57:55 -0700
Subject: I have a profitable transaction to conclude with you.

*Attn*

*Re.. I have a profitable transaction to conclude with you.*

*Dear new Friend/Partner Good day, I came across you when searching on the
Internet to meet with a reliable partner. **On behalf of our late Bank
customer **who bears same last name with you but not from your same
Country, which is my reason asking you stand to claim the Funds while i
will be guiding you underground with required information as an insider.*

* I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and
business partners. This is a personal mail directed to you and I request
that it be treated as such. **One has no doubt in your ability to handle an
international business of considerable TRUST, which may form the bedrock of
an extensive business partnership in the future.*

*I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department, Bank name and location undisclosed until you show interest for
the safety of Job because i am due for retirement immediately we complete
this transaction in few days time and I use my share go into
Investment/Projects in your Country.*

*PROPOSITION: In my Branch i personally discovered an abandoned sum of $
15.5 million US Dollars) .In an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer and we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim
his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as
next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin
or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody
behind for the claim.*

* It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you by my head office as
the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we do not want this money to
go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.*

*SHARING ARRANGEMENTS: The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that
if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be
transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that
the customer was a foreigner, and non of our citizen can stand as next of
kin to a foreigner.*

* We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for ;me and my
woman colleague. There after I and my family will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentages indicated.*

*EXECUTION OF THE PROPOSED DEAL: Therefore to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank
as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your
bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and
effective communication and location where the money will be remitted.*

*Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you text of the application I
want to also bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% free and
that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements
have been made for the transfer to take off.*

*You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter for
more brief.*

*Yours faithfully,*
*Franklin Morgan.*

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