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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: "FREDERICK LOUGH" <fredericklough45@outlook.con>
Reply-To: "FREDERICK LOUGH" <fredericklough@yahoo.com>,
fredericklough@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:31:10 +0000
Subject: YOUR URGENT ATTENTION

DEAR ESTEEMED,

I am Mr Frederick Lough , the Branch Manager of an Investment Bank in Istanbul I am 46 years of age, married with two lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem, but I don't know how you will feel about this, but I am telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me .

I only hope we can assist each other. But if you don't want this business offer kindly forget it.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the Branch Manager of Bank here in Istanbul it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Istanbul at the end of each year. On the course of the last two years 2017 end of the year report, I discovered that my deceased has no beneficiary or next kin attached to his account with the Sum of Eight Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars [$8,750.000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of.

I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary or next of kin.

As an officer of the Bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so this is why i have to contact you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE, Meanwhile you will have 35% of the total fund and 5% for expenses incurred during the process of the transaction and 60% for me Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the beneficiary of this fund, so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your kind response, I will give you details on how we can achieve it successfully.

Please contact me via this E-mail for more details.

Best Regards,
Mr Frederick Lough





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