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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: Info Enquiry <infoenquiry12@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 02:03:32 -0800
Subject: My Dear Friend,

Foreign Operations Department
African Development Bank
Togo West Africa.

My Dear Friend,

I am Mr. George Frank. The head of file department of African
Development Bank (ADB) here in Lome Togo, In my department we
discovered an abandoned sum of (US$8.5 Million Dollars,) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers Mr. Prakash Azim Mike,
whose relatives I cannot get in touch with who was a popularly known
independent contractor here in Lome Togo. On 21 April 2012,he and his
wife and only daughter were involved in an automobile accident while
visiting a neighboring country on vacation. I contacted you to assist
me in repatriating his fund valued of (US$8.5m) Eight Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars into your account. I am
compelled to do this because I would not want the Finance company to
push this funds (US$8.5m)into their treasury as unclaimed inheritance.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for the safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it. I agree that 40% of this
money will be for you, while 60% would be for me. Then after the money
has been transferred into your account, I will visit your country for
an investment under your kind control.

Upon your response including your direct cellphone number/nationality
and contact details which i will use to get you the next of kin
application form from the bank, so that you will contact the Bank for
the transfer of this money into your account, as the real next of kin
of this deceased account with the next of kin application form.

Can I give you this financial trust as a trustee/stake holder. Please
confirm the receipt of this message to my alternative email address (
infoenquiries@aol.com ) for more details

Yours truly
From George Frank

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