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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: khairy100@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:48:26 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20KHAIRY?=

Dear Sir
I am Khairy Williams I am the personal Account Manager to
Late Engr. lesuni Pratner who was a director with
JULIUS BERGER PLC in Nigeria.


Here in after shall be referred to as my client on 30
JAN 2000 my client his wife and their three children were
involved in the the Kenya airways flight with registration
number5Y-BEN which departed from Nairobi to destination
Lagos and they allfamily died in this fatal air crash
on 30 JAN 2000, Since then I have made several inquiries
to his embassy to locate Any of my clients extended
Relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.


Before my Client died he had the sum of $7.2million
dollars desposited with the STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC
which he kept in a safe deposit
After these several unsuccessful attempts to locate
any of my client family members I decided to contact
you as a foreginer in helping me in repatriating the
money, $7.2million united states dollars and property
left behind Before the bank get the fund confiscated
or declared unserviceable by my bank His Bank has
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin Or have
the account confiscated within the next ten official
working days.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin
despsite the fact that i cannot come forth since the
company and the bank know me to be his personal
accountant Of the deceased since you is on the same
field so that the proceeds Of this account valued at
$7.2 million u s dollars can be paid to You and then
you and I Can share the money.
Thus the sharing
formulae remain .
30% for me
40% for investment in a jiont venture company for both
for both of us
20% for you
10% for unforeseen bottle necks we might incur in this
Transaction.

I also assure you personally that this transaction is
100% risk free asan attorney will be contracted to
help us revalidated and notarize allthe necessary
legal documents that can be used to back up any claim
wemay make.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this deal Through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate Arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.

PROVIDE ME WITH THE INFORMATION BELOW:
FULL NAMES:
COMPLETE BANKING INFORMATION (where the fund will be transfered into):
STATE AND COUNTRY:
AGE:
NAME OF COMPANY IF ANY:
OCCUPATION:
TELE PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS:



Best regards
Khairy Williams




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