419 scam: "FREDRICK OLA" <ffredrickola@info.com> I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- ffredrickola@aol.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FREDRICK OLA" <ffredrickola@info.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ffredrickola@aol.com
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:18:16 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

RESPOND VIA:

ffredrickola@aol.com

Dear Friend,

I am Fredrick Ola, the Human Resources Executive of Atlantic Oil & Gas
Corporation. On the 15th of May 2003, Philips lob, an expatriate, who was
a
consultant/contractor with the Corporation, was found to have died in a
plane crash along the Lekki Peninsula while on inspection tour of offshore
oilfacilities belonging to the Corporation.As the Welfare Director of the
corporation, I contacted Philips bankers and briefed them of this
development. The bankers informed me that since their client is dead, it
is only the next of kin to the deceased with the proper legal documents
that can compel them to pay his fixed deposit as an inherited estate. With
the position of the financial outfit, I mandated the legal department of
our firm to search for a relative of the deceased so that he can be
presented as the next of kin to the bank.

But the only relative of the deceased, one Mr. Sam Leonard who was also
the next of kin to the deceased according to his bank documents and who
was last known to have lived in Latvia Eastern Europe, died as cancer
patient some two months before his death. All efforts to trace other
relatives of the deceased proved abortive, as all available links were
exhusted. Three years after his death, with no news from any relative
living anywhere and no one coming forward, we decided to seek a foreigner
so that the fund can be transferred out of its present account to yours.

The account deposit contains US$12 million United States Dollars and it
isimportant that a probable next of kin claims this fund within the next
fourteen official working days. If no one comes for the claim before the
stipulated time frame, the account would be closed as inactive and dormant
and funds sent to the coffers of the government. This is in consonance
with the stipulations of the enabling laws governing foreign inherited
estates. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased.This would facilitate the payment of the proceeds of the said
account to you.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect all the parties involved from any breach of the law.

Please let me know what you intend to have as your commission if you agree
to embark on this venture.

Please reply me via my private email address

ffredrickola@aol.com

Best Regards,

Fredrick Ola.

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam