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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: "DR CHRIST MBA" <drchrist01@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:03:54 +0000
Subject: Your Immidiate Assitance To Mr Henry Fund.

Dear Friend,

I am very sorry for this breach of protocol. This is because I don't know
how to personally reach you, except this internet which is very
porous.Please bear with me.I am Dr Christ Mba, a solicitor at law.The
personal Assitance to Engineer.Henry Anslinger, a National of your Country,
who used to work with The Shell Development Company, in Nigeria, as plant
Engineer. Before his death in a auto crash which took place in August,11st
2003.

He has a fix deposite of Fourteen millon dollars five hundred and fifty as a
family belongings in the UNION BANK PLC,with the hope of transferring it to
his country as soon as he is on leave.And, unfortunately he died alongside
with his wife, on their way to Lagos,and have no "Next-Of- kin", and had no
children. Since his death I have made several enquiries to your embassy to
locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved
unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace
his lastname, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.Since
I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over 3 year now I
seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since
you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this deposit valued at
$14.5million dollars can be handed over to you and then you and me with my
two colleguescan share the money. 60% to us and 40% to you. I will
manipulate the necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any
claim we may make.

It is true that we don't know each other, but I believe that it takes two to
tangle, with mutual understanding devoid of cheating, we will succeed.If you
would be interested to do this business with me, Please get in touch with me
by mail:(dr_mbachrist@myway.com)to enable us discuss further.In your reply,
I will appreciate questions before the commencement of this deal, if any,
please send your personal data, your telephone/fax numbers, account
details and an email address specifically for this business.

Note that we can conclude this operation within ten banking days.Please keep
this very confidential for obvious security reasons. Contact me for more
information, all confirmable before before we proceed Trusting to hear from
you shortly for a detailed information which are confirmable before you can
make up your mind .

If however,you are not interested,do let me know by returm maill too as I
will not contact anybody else until I hear from you.

I thank you in advance for your co-operation while expecting your immediate
positive reply. God bless.

Yours faithfully,
Dr.Christ Mba.

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