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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: yaney07@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:35:11 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BUSINESS=20PROPOSAL=21?=

ATN;
l know that this mail will come to you as a big
suprise since you do
not know me . Please read carefully through this mail
and get back to
me. This is real and please note that this is no scam,
junk or a
joke. This
is real and l need your coperation.
lam mr ali zenco, l work with the union bank of
Nigeria as a
consultant in the foreign exchange Department.
Sir, there is a dormant account that belongs to one
Mr Wilson
BASS an
Englishman. The said Mr BASS is an international
business man,
unfortunately he died in a plane crash in Nigeria some
fews years
back, But
he left in his account fifteen million United States
dollars and right
now there is no next of kin and no address of whom to
contact.
I am looking for an honest and trustworthy person
to use as next of kin of mrBASS so that we can
claim the money
and share it. So i am are asking you to assit me complete
this
transaction as you will be highly compensated. lnfact
I have decided
that after the transaction you will get 30% of the
money and i will
keep 60% and 10% will be expenses incurred as a
result of
transaction.
please not that this is not illegal and this is no
money laundry
because if i do not claim this money the bank will
claim the money
so please try and help me. lt does not matter which
country you come
from as long as you have an account with which we can claim
the money
please note that there is no risk of any type in this
transaction.
Yours Sincerely
ali zenco
NOTE REPLY ONLY TO THIS EMAIL
ADDRESS|alizenco@yahoo.com



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