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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: <s_larry007@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:54:08 +0100
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

Good day,

I am Larry Smith, an Accountant with the UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC - FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.

I am a personal accountant to one of our foreign customers Late Engineer Roland Meyer who died in the Ikeja bomb blast of the January 27, 2002. My client, his wife, and their two children were involved in Ikeja bomb blast unfortunately they lost their lives in the process of the bomb blast. We discovered an abandoned sum of $15.5 million US dollars in his account.

Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of- kin to come over and make claims for his money as the to the deceased, because we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I agreed to make business with you and release the total amount ($15.5 million u.s. dollars) into your account as the next of kin to the deceased since no one came for it
or discovered his maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.

I have agreed that at the end of the transaction, you will be
compensated with a very reasonable and irresistible percentage. Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I will come down to your country and mind my share. It is
from my share I intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund.

For confirmation, please refer to the links below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/worald/africa/2698081.stm
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html

I look forward to receiving your prompt response Immediately

Mr. Larry Smith.
PLS SEND YOUR RESPONSE TO MY PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS: s_larry007@yahoo.com







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