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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: "Hakeem Abdullah" <hakeem_2k5@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 18:42:00 +0400
Subject: Business

Greetings,

My name is Mr Hakeem Abdullah. I am from Singapore and i live in
Dubai, where i work with the National Bank of Dubai here in United Arab
Emirates (UAE).

As the chief auditor for the year 2004/2005. Last year during our
auditing section i discovered an abandoned deposit of Seven Million
Five hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$ 7.5, 000.000.00).
Which belongs to a late customer of the bank Late Engr. Ahmed Moustafa.
an Egyptian citizen who died last year in a planecrash in an island in
Iran, about 45 minutes to UAE by air. You can read more on this at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3475081.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/10/world/main599186.shtml

His next of kin has not been located since the death of this late
customer of the above named bank here in the UAE.

Why I contacted you is for you to stand as the next of kin to the late
depositor of this funds to enable us move this funds out of the bank
here in Dubai-UAE. To a secured account in your country where we will
both meet together to share the funds.

I will computerize and change all the information's in the next of kin
column in the deposit record to tally with yours, we stand the chance
to make this deal a success you will not be required to come to the
bank personally, I will make an arrangements for a financial attorney who
will be representing you here in Dubai-UAE for the proceed.

Should your be interested in this business please respond with this
email address and provide your name and contact information's,
telephone numbers to enable me provide you with more details and
information's on how we will proceed.

Please I want you to note that this business is a 100% risk free
transaction and it requires absolute secrecy and confidentiality, as am
a contract staff in the bank.

Yours faithfully.
Mr Hakeem Abdullah.




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