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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: Mirabel Johnson <mirabeljohnson202@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mirabeljohnson202@outlook.fr
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 10:11:02 +0000
Subject: Greetings


Hello My Dear,

My Greetings and compliments.


With due respect, you may be surprised to receive this letter from me since
you do not know me personally.

I am MRS. Mirabel Johnson, a bank Manager in European Investment Bank (E I
B), Paris - France.

I write to you irrespective of the fact that you do not know me, but I am
contacting you concerning a business proposal, I will like to discuss with
you. I discovered over $8.500,000.00, United State Dollars, which belong to
a foreign contractor who died here in France in 2013 at hospital. Ever
since he died the bank has been expecting any next of kin to come and claim
his funds, however the bank cannot release the money unless someone applies
for it as the next of kin as indicated in our banking guide line.
Unfortunately he has no family member who are ware of the existence of the
money.

I will like you to assist me in getting this fund from my bank as the next
of kin of the contractor. I will flourish with the information’s you will
need to get the funds out. I do not want this money to go into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking guideline stipulates that if such
money remains unclaimed for a period of up to Ten years (10 years) the
money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed funds.

I want you to provide account, so that I will transfer the money into your
Country for us to share the money after the transfer. I agreed to offer you
35% of the total money, if you provide the account. 60% will be for me.
While 5% will be set in case of any expenses during the transfer.


Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Mirabel Johnson

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