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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: prince monaco <princemonaco2000@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:06:36 +0000
Subject: WITH HOPE

Compliment of the seasion,
I am Mr. Prince Monaco. I work under
procurement department of the
National Petroleum Agency SA[NPA-SA].
This company supplies a brand of
crude oil called Alba Crude Oil and
sale to the world market through
license mandate operators/holders. The
NPA-SA issues oil lifting
license allocations to
Individuals/companies who will assist them to
market their product and earn
commission in return. The work of the
license operator/holder is to locate
the buyers of the crude oil and
negotiate a buy/sale transaction on
behalf of the NPA-SA. The license
operator earns a $4.00 commission on
each barrel of crude oil sold to
the buyer as commissions, but we are
not allowed to transect the
business because we are working in the
company.

On 15 January 2016, I got a an Iraqi
partner to this business who is
license holder, we are in agreement
that I will be doing the inner
work by facilitating his documents so
that he will be receiving quick
allocation because I am one of the
senior staff of the company.
We secure the first batch of crude
which is 500.000 barrel we went
into agreement with a Russian oil
business buyer to make the supply to
him for 14 months which we have already
completed; the money was paid
into our joint account as we Waite for
another order from our buyer.
On 27th may 2017, my partner told me
that he will be traveling to his
home town in Bagdad but he did not
return again, I later learnt that
he was killed by Islamist fighters, I
have tried all means to get in
touch with him or any relation without
any successes and from the
information by the bank, there is no
way I can make the claim by
myself alone since it was joint account
and the amount is 32 million
united states dollars, this amount is
our profit we made in 16 months
supply. I have tried to trace his where
about by contacting his
country mission, but there is no
breakthrough and I have spoken to the
bank severally for them to release my
own share which they refused and
insisted that since it is joint
account, I must produce my partner or
his relation which I have tried but no
success.

Please the reason why I am writing you
is for you to help me so that
we can get the bank to release the
money for us, I will present you to
the bank as my partner’s relation
irrespective of your nationality, I
will get a fine lawyer who will perfect
all the necessary requirement
needed by the bank, I will discuss the
percentage with you if you
respond to my request, I believe in WIN
WIN business. If you are
interested get back to me by this below
email only please.
princemonaco2000@gmail.com
Best Regards,

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