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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: "Daniel Amah" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ddamah2001@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:17:41 +0100
Subject: A Transaction For Mutual Benefit!!

Good day,

I am Daniel Amah, a banker with a Financial Institution here in Ghana, west africa.

There is an abandoned and unclaimed fat account in our bank owned by a late foreign business mogul. The deposits in this account are valued US$28,520,000.00 (twenty eight million five hundred and twenty thousand U.S dollars only). The account owner died in 2004. Since his death, the account has remained abandoned.

The account has a clear information of its next of kin reading "an N.G.O company (Charity Organization) in Ghana" to be directed by the account owner's relation. Further search revealed that, the N.G.O company does not exist with the Registrar of companies.

If this account continues to remain abandoned or unclaimed, the bank of Ghana will recover all the deposits for government use.

I seek your full coopeation, trust, honesty to front you as the late account owner's relation, who will use all the classified information at my disposal to legally register the said N.G.O company and become the corporate next of kin to receive the US$28,529,000.00 for charity purpose as written in the account information file.

If you would like to partner with me in this profitable venture, send via email your names, contact address and direct phone number for easy communications.
I will reach you accordingly with a detailed information on the planned agenda to be executed every party and the sharing ratio of the fund.

Regards,

Daniel

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