419 scam: "FRANK OBIOMA" <rankobioma5@gmail.com> RE

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:

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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "FRANK OBIOMA" <rankobioma5@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fobioma@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:00:45 +0430
Subject: RE

INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

ATTENTION"""

I am looking for your cooperation in building a Tourist Hotel or Real
Estate in
your country,

I am sorry if this is not in line with your business because i got
your contact from your country directory book, who will be capable for
the business ,believing that you will never let me down either now or
in future ,

I have in mind in Buying of commercial land and Build a nice hotel for
patronage and budgeted with Sum Amount of ( MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. WILL
LET YOU KNOW) for the investment only,

As I want you to inform me procedure of a non-Citizen investing in your
Country
because l know that I cannot invest in your country without the assistant
from
someone like you for a partnership in buiz, I need an experienced
person like you to assist me to set up develop the project and assume
responsibility of ownership as chairman but will be bringing in profit
/distribute profit monthly or annually.

Best Regards,

Frank Obioma.

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam