joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi <mahmudiali7701@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 11:53:05 +0100
Subject: Business Opportunity

Greetings,

My name is Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi. Former Secretary of the General People's
Committee of Libya in late Col. Muammar Gaddafi Government in Libya. I was
one of the personal assistant to late Libya head of state Col. Muammar
Gaddafi who was eliminated on 20th October 2011, by the rebel. My good self
and other Aids of Gaddafi was taking into house arrest by leadership of the
new government till date. I assisted Col. Gaddafi our former President to
carry out most of his secret business deals ranging from exportation of
Gold, diamond, Alluvial Gold bar/dust and exportation of millions of
foreign currencies to foreign banks.

There is $250,000,000, US Dollars, (Two Hundred and Fifty Million US
Dollars) which I assisted my late former Boss, Col. Muammar Gaddafi to
deposit codded in a bank in Europe less than 2 weeks before his death which
nobody has any knowledge about, not even any member of his family, his
relative nor his close associates apart from me. I want to use the money
for investment purposes in the real estate sector in your country or any
profitable business as you may direct which is my reason for contacting you.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY:

On your acceptance to join hands with me for the investment of the money,
the transaction shall be carried out this way.

(A) You will be entitled to 15% of the total amount for assisting me in
good direction in carrying out investment of the funds in real estate
investment or any lucrative business venture as you may wish and 5% shall
be mapped out for payment of taxes and other expenses as the case may be.

(B) The remaining 80% balance of the total sum will be invested by you
under a joint venture basis that will last for at least 10 years which the
profit shall be revealed at the end of each fiscal year after all expenses
and shall be shared into 50-50 ratio after which both parties will
contribute 70% of annual income and invest back to the company.

Upon your acceptance to my proposal, i will introduce you to my private
Lawyer who will handle this process with you and also draft a Legal Binding
document, (A memorandum of understanding MOU./Agreement), that will stand
as a binding between you and i to protect the interest of both parties
involved in this transaction as i am not capable of doing this due to the
house arrest issued on me in Libya.

TAKE NOTE:

The money is currently deposited in a bank in Europe, (overseas) and be
informed that the money in question has nothing to do with my detention
here in Libya hence no living being knows about this fund or that the money
belongs to my former Boss apart from me. Also be assured that this money is
free from any form of illegality, drug, terrorism and money laundering.
Please if you are interested in this transaction, feel free to contact me
immediately.

Also note that i have made arrangements with my bank where the fund was
deposited on how to assist you in opening an offshore bank account in your
name where the funds can be transferred into in case you don't want the
money to be transferred to your account in your country direct because of
the huge amount involved, then from your offshore bank account you will
open in my bank in Europe to receive this funds first, you can start
transferring the funds to your bank account in your country bit by bit for
the investment purpose.


Finally, understand that you have to treat this transaction with utmost
confidentiality for security reasons because human beings can be
unpredictable, i don't want you to disclose this transaction to anyone as
it may jeopardize all the efforts which i made in securing this funds for
some years now in a foreign bank after the death of my former boss and
please understand that this fund is my only hope to start my life all over
again after my house arrest is lifted.


I await your urgent response to my private email: mahmudiali7701@gmail.com.

Best Regards.
Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi

Anti-fraud resources: