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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: Nnpc Audditor General <nnpcaudditorgeneral@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: fredrickrichard@jmail.co.za
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:49:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (US$ 153,000.000.00 USD). PARTNERSHIP PROJECT FROM NNPC !!!


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: nnpcaudditorgeneral@rocketmail.com



- Dear Sir/Madam, I am Mr.Okeke Fredrick Richard the Auditor General of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Certainly, the prompting of this letter to you is anchored on my strong desire to solicit your sincere understanding and co-operation in this transaction that would certainly boost the financial stand of both parties involved when completed. As a matter of fact, I want to transfer to overseas a total sum of One hundred and Fifty three million United States Dollars (US$ 153,000.000.00 USD). I want you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important transaction believing that you will never let me down either now or in the near future. In all honesty, during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund of the above mentioned amount in an account opened with the bank in 1990 and since then, nobody had operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the money in the account was mapped out for the refurbishment of the oil Company's Machineries. Meanwhile, Mr. Magnus Leon, the President of the Oil Company was the only signatory to the account but unfortunately he died after a brief illness in 1993 and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it also the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that Mr. Magnus Leon until his death had wanted to siphoned this money into his personal account in New York hence he did not disclose the operating devises of the account to the Board of Trustees. I am only contacting you in this regard, based on the fact that you are a foreigner because this money can only be approved to any foreigner who can present all documents that will prove that he/she is the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to the account base on the fact that Mr. Magnus Leon the owner of this account is a foreigner and the money can only be approved into a foreign bank account. Therefore if you are capable of handling this transaction with me lets make the necessary arrangement for the hitch-free transfer of this money to any safe bank account that you may nominate on a share percentage bases. I shall commence actions immediately to process the payment of the money in your favor as the beneficiary as soon as i receive a positive response from you that you are capable of handling the transaction . Please send your response to my direct email address : fredrickrichard@jmail.co.za Yours Faithfully Mr.Okeke Fredrick Richard


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