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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: ray.umar@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:08:47 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GET=20BACK=20TO=20ME?=

Attention ,

Information about you were Issued on demand by a
friend who works with world chamber of commerce. My
name is Dr. Raymond Umar and am a director with
Nigerian National Petrolum Cooperation (NNPC).

However, this is to bring to your notice that there
is
an outstanding fund totaling ($18 million ) eighteen
millon United State Dollas in our cooperation
representing final pharse payment which has been
already been made to the Bulgerian Company(Elder
Demsi).

However, this amount reflects in the computer as a
debt which the cooperation owe and oblarge to pay.
We
have come together as the top officials to re-affect
this payment into any trust wordy account either
individual account or companys account will be
acceptable. We have already apply to the ministry of
finance for exchange control approval. May i remind
you that this business is risk free and already a
certified power of attorney is guaranteed in favour
of
this transaction. And drug free certificate have
also
been applied for.


if this offer is accepted, we need asurance that it
will remain secret till the end and kindly get back
to
us immediately. We have already applied for related
legal clearance. Sharing ratio is negotiable.
For the purpose of communication in this matter,we
will like to have your, phone number , Fax number
etc. Please send your reply to the following
email raymondumar@hotmail.com

Prove of fund will also be issued on demand, Inorder
words, if demand by our external banks of
settlement.
Hoping to hearing from you soonest.

Your Faithfully.
Dr Raymond Umar.
Director,NNPC.



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