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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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Fraud email example:

From: dr_abdalla@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:15:45 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?trusting=20to=20hearing=20from=20you=2E?=

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Dr Ahmed Abdalla Director and board
member,Transparency international ,Kenya.

We are interested in diverting some funds currently
floating in the suspense account of the federal pay
office to your account as soon as possible.

Source of the funds:
During the Arap Moi's government, governments
officials awarded contracts to their own companies,
these contracts were grossly overinvoiced. Now the
present government set up contract review panel to
settle those owed outstanding amount.

My colleagues and I have identified a huge amount
totaling US$ 870m (Eight hundred and seventy million
us dollars) oversea .

We would wantUS$43.8m (Forty three million Eight
Hundred Thousand) dollars out this money oversea
transferred to your account because we are not
eligible to operate foreign account, and I have been
mandated to search for a partner abroad. We really
want this transfer made as soon as possible before the
government, who have started refunding money from
Moi's foreign accounts track this money.We will be
offering 20% for your assistance.

If you would want to proceed with this transaction
please reply with your name and phone number and if
you do not accept my offer please treat with utmost
confidentiality.

For more information check the website below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3338023.stm

Best Regards,
Ahmed Abdalla.

Please for confidentiality endeavour to getback to me
through drahmed_abdella@minister.com (this is very important)




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