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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: david lekota <davidlekota03@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:18:13 -0800
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PLEASE!

From Mr. David Lekota
Absa bank of South Africa
Add: 70 Marshall Street,
Johannesburg, 2001.
South Africa.

Greetings!

Dear,

I am Mr. David Lekota, the Bill and Exchange manager of Absa bank of South
Africa and I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge sum of
money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due
to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

I discovered an abandoned sum of US$18,500,000.00 (Eighteen million Five
hundred thousand united states dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a car
accident. Since his death, none of his next of kin or relations has come
forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot release the
fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next of kin
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this
discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to
the deceased as all documentation will be carefully worked out by me for
the funds of (US$18,500,000.00) to be released in your favour as the
beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know that I have secured
from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of deceased
beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavor.

I shall be compensating you with three million five hundred thousand
dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for my
investment purposes in your country that you will propose to me. If this
proposal is acceptable by you, do take advantage of this opportunity.

Please reply as soon as possible.

Regards,

Mr. David Lekota.

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