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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: "SKY BANK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <amaka@skybank.mail.ua>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 17:07:14 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL (Very Urgent)

Dear Friend.
My Name is Mrs Amaka Onwughalu, I work with SKY Bank. I have a business which will get both of us
richer if you can handle it well. There is a domiciliary account that contains over $21million
United States Dollars, and that account had remained dormant for over eight months; i have traced and
discovered that the owner of that account was jailed in London on Drug related offence.
I would like to reactivate the said account and reconfigure it with an ATM MASTERCARD which i will
send to you; with the ATM MasterCard you can make withdrawal from that account on any ATM
MasterCard worldwide.
All i will require to get this done is your Honesty not to cheat me as we will share every amount drawn
from the account 50/50. As an insider in the bank i will give you an application form to enable you apply
for an ATM MasterCard in the name of the account owner, and then forward it to the bank with the
activation and processing fee of $400 Dollars only. I will then configure the account and process the
MasterCard and send it to you which you will have access to draw from the account daily basis through
any ATM Machine. When you receive the mastercard, you will have the ability to draw daily Limit $5000.
But that depend on the limit set at any ATM Machine in your country.
Once you make any withdrawal it will reflect in the account and each amount drawn you will take half
and send half to an account i will provide to you.
This is the deal. I will need your information below:
 
FULL NAME
FULL ADDRESS
AGE
MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBER
YOUR ID
Once i receive your details i will forward to you an application form and give you details of the account
to fill in the application. Then give you official email where you will forward the form to enable it come to
my desk officially for approval.
 
Thanks
Mrs Amaka Onwughalu.
SKY Bank plc.

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