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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "JOSEPH SAMUEL" <privatemailbox2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: josephsamuel4@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:32:20 +0000
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Tell: 234-1-7205610

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
TRANSFER OF US$35,000.000.00

We are making this contact with you after a satisfactory information
gathered from the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce.

Based on this, we are convinced that you will provide us with a solution to
effect remittance of the sum of $35,500.000.00 resulting from over costing
of a job/services done for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC),by foreign companies.

We are top officials of NNPC. We evaluate and secure approvals for payment
of contracts executed for NNPC.We have tactfully raised values to a foreign
company for onward disbursement among ourselves the Director of
Accounts/Finance and Director of Audit. This transaction is 100% safe. We
are seeking your assistance and permission to remit this amount into your
account as the beneficiary to this sum.

We have agreed to give you 35% of the total valu! e for the role you will
play in getting the funds released to your account, while our share will
be60%. The remaining5% will be used as refund by both sides to off set the
cost that must be incurred in the areas of public relations, engaging of
legal practitioner as attorney, taxation and other
incidentals in the course of securing the legitimate release of the fund
into your account.

Please indicate your acceptance to carry out this transaction urgently on
receipt of this letter. I shall in turn inform you of the modalities for a
formal application to secure the necessary approvals for the immediate
legitimate release of this fund into your account.

Please understand that this transaction must be held in absolute privacy and
confidentiality.

Thanks for your co-operations.

Yours faithfully,

JOSEPH SAMUEL

Tell: 234-1-7205610


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