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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: Baar Chieme <baarchieme55@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: beninfinance_c@sify.com
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:30:36 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Please accept this ($1.5million ) contact my lawyer in Nigeria
immediately,




Attn:My Dear Friend,



I am Mr. Baar Chieme, I am very happy to inform you about my success ingesting those fund $25.5 million transferred through the help of a friend from Washington DC who assisted me financially to get the business done and i decided to compensate you for the little effort you showed earlier during when i contacted you about 6 years ago despite the transaction did not work for both of us but the spirit of most high GOD was troubling me to compensate you with the part of the funds. Now I want you to contact my lawyer in NIGERIA on his email address below and receive your compensation of $1.5million us dollars from him through an ATM VISACARD: Barrister Goodluck Dominic ESQ,Email ( goodluckdominic@qatar.io ) Mobile +234 8164629229.



Kindly reconfirm to him the following below information:

Your full name_______________________

Your address________________________

Your country________________________

Your zip code___________ ____________

Your age___________________________

Your occupation______________________

Your Phone number___________________



Note that if you did not send him the above information complete with this code 777, he will not release the ATM to you because he has to be sure that it is you. Note also that I will not be reached by email but I can receive acall here in Washington DC United state of America where I reside presently for now because I am currently staying in United state of America for investment purpose with my share and I will be busy till about six months time or a year.



also i want to advise you as a good friend to be very very careful dealing with people because there's a lot of scams going on everywhere in Africa/Europe even some part of America which i am very sure you will be receiving a lot of proposals/mails/format every day in your email and they will be telling you a lot of stories about transferring funds to you or telling you about your over due funds and so on but i want you to be very careful so that you don't loss your hard earn money to bad people and impostors, please make sure my lawyer Barrister Goodluck Dominic send you his official ID and CALL TO BAR certificate as genuine lawyer.



if not don't respond to him because he's not my real lawyer, I have ordered my lawyer to scan his ID and CALL TO BAR certificate when contacting you so that you will be very sure whom you are dealing with and i will also advise you if you are a christian or muslin, then you should always commit your self and family to prayers because prayers is the key of life and success and with God/Allah all things are possible, I am testifying today as a living witness because when i was struggling to move these funds $25.5million out of the country, it was not easy for me because any foreigner i contact will always feel may be this is a scam due to how he or she are receiving a lot of proposal every day with a different stories.



but have to stand and pick up a faith in prayers and my God whom i serve and lay my confidence never disappointed me, and he directed me to one Mr.Walter Board man from United state of America and i have never seen him or known him from anywhere but due to God's miracle the young man stand beside me just to make sure my funds been successfully transferred to his account in state which he spent a lot of money to assist me but today he's the happiest man on earth because i share with him 70/30 of the total sum, so that's God favor.



Now you should quickly contact my lawyer in Nigeria immediately for your little compensation of $1.5million loaded with ATM VISA CARD and make sure you indicate the code 777 to the lawyer to avoid wrong delivery of



your VISA CARD to another person.

Best regards,

Mr. Baar Chieme

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