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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: "Jordan Finegold" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jfinegolduob@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 02:41:57 -0800
Subject: Project Proposal

Attn,

I am Dr Jordan Finegold, The Computing Account Auditor of the United

Overseas Bank England. On the Month of January 2012 last year, My Bank

committee on Inheritance settlements approved and disbursed over

100,000,000.00 euros Drafts to foreign Heirs of Late depositors’ funds

in my Bank. Payment to beneficiaries were successful paid legitimately

from last year to this present day of year 2012.This shows that

beneficiaries whose relations died and left over monies in their

accounts with the United Overseas Bank has been paid successfully.

But there is still a single remaining unclaimed Payment Draft File

worth 14,400,000.00 Million euros outstanding in my bank office

Beneficiaries files which were never claimed by anyone. I have checked

all files and investigated this payment but I found out there is no

person to claim this remaining Draft worth 14,400,000.00 million euros.

All our investigation to get to the relations of this unclaimed payment

has not been fruitful and if this money is not claimed before the end

of December 2012, my Bank will revert the money to the Government

Revenue Account and then we will lose this opportunity.

I am contacting you to cooperate with me as a foreigner to make claims

for this money so I canreplace your name as the beneficary of the funds

and file your name as the beneficaryof the 14,400,000 Million euros.My

Bank will release this payment to you as soon as I provide them

with your information.

We will share this money 50/50 each after the funds have been

transfered into your bank account safely. This transaction is very safe

and 100% risk free. Do not disclose this proposal to anyone.Get back to

me immediately for more details.

Best Regards,
Dr Jordan Finegold,
Bank auditor
United Overseas Bank
3153781888

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