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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: lansawyerr@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:28:41 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20Business=20Assistance?=


Dear friend,

I am an Accountant working in the Audit Department of a commercial bank.There
is a domiciliary account opened by a foreigner in my bank which the amount
in the account now is $6.750M. Operation in the Account(Deposit/Withdrawal)has
ceased since Three half years back. On investigation it is found that the
account holder died with his immediate family. No person has put claim to
the fund as next of kin and aftersome time now if not claimed the bank will
officially close the account.


On this development I and my colleagues have agreed to arrange and claim
the money which can only be possible by getting an oversea account holder
who is honest and trustworthy whom we will now fix as the next of kin for
easy claming and transferring of the said amount into his account.


Therefore, I now ask for your candid assistance in this regard as we have
done a ll our homework very well. We agreed to part with 30% to you for
your assitance and 10% earmarked for operational expenses while the remiaining
60% is for us.

Upon your acceptance we will then give you further informations for the
transaction to take off.Private E-mail: lansawyerr@yahoo.com

NB.You can also check this website for news story
about the crash three
years ago. http://www.usafricaonline.com/aircrashkenya.html


Thanks

LANRE SAWYER.(Accountant General)
Victoria Island Branch.




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