joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
 Free trial for 30 days
   jwSpamSpy
Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

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

Fraud email example:

From: "William Henry" <williamhenry_1112@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: william_henry10@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:27:40 -0800
Subject: TREAT AS IMPORTANT

ATTENTION;



I n order to transfer the sum of GBP15m from our bank here in London. I
havethe courage to look for a reliable person who will be capable and honest
for this important transaction, believing that you will not let my effort
down in future, I am Mr William Henry, the auditor and computing
staffof.Barclays.Bank here in the UK.There is an account opened in this bank
since 1995 and since 2001 nobody have operated it, after my investigation in
some files I could lay my hands upon, I discovered that if I do not remit
this urgent in an account urgently, it will be confiscated by our bank. The
owner of this account is late Mr. John Hughes Coe and a manager of petrol-
chemical service and also an engineer herein London who died since 2001.My
dear, nobody knows about this account or anything about this account, it is
at this junctures that I deem your assistance to remit this money into your
account. I am only contacting you as a friend and partner and as well a
foreigner, who will not betray me or try to cheat me when have received this
money. I know that this massage will come to you as a surprise as you do not
know both do I know you this transaction is real, and one hundred percent
risk free, and hoping you will be of immense assistance to each other when
the transaction has been concluded.When the transfer is approved and payment
schedule is allocated overseas through our offshore payment representative
for final clearance an signing of the payment released form to you as the
beneficiary of funds. I want us to meet face in a round table meeting
concern the success of this transaction to discuss the percentage of sharing
the money. Or sign a binding agreement to bind us together in this
transaction, so that we can receive this money into your nominated Bank
account or any account of your choice.I am contacting you because of the
need to involve a foreigner, where we can receive these funds as the real
beneficiary of money. I need your co operation to make this dream a reality;
I am ready to give 25% out of the total sum of money upon the conclusion of
transaction with you.I need your assurance that we can work together to
achieve.



BEST REGARD
MR WILLIIAM HENRY
BARCLAYS BANK RUTHWELL,
DUMFRIES DGI4NN SOUTH
WEST SCOTLAND

_________________________________________________________________
Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more…then map the best
route! http://local.live.com?FORM=MGA001


Anti-fraud resources: