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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: <cjyong@ccapital.biz>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:12:30 -0700
Subject: Money unclaimed


                                                                                
Dear Sir

I got your contact in online Directory search and decided to contact you and I hope you don?t mind because we don?t know each other before.

I decide to contact you because there was one Mr. Andreas, here, an investor from your country who was a client of ABSA Bank of South Africa of which I work as a General Account Auditor staff.

In the series of our annual financial audit, I and my colleague has noted no account movement in Mr. Andreas account for consecutive 5yrs now and our recent investigation confirmed that the owner Mr Andreas died in a car crash along Pretoria Highway with his wife and their only daughter which unfortunately there was no survivor in the crash.

I am now searching for someone in your country who can work with me confidentially to stand as his relative so that the bank will approve the money to be transfer out of South Africa. The account balance of Eleven Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($11.2M).

However, if you are his relative because you share similar name/country with the dead client, or maybe you knows his relative or can be of help in any way, please don?t delay to reply this email so that Inheritance Claim application can be quickly be made to the bank for the release of the funds to you/oversea account before it is too late, otherwise the money will be forfeited as ?unclaimed fund?.

I will give you more information as you respond positively.


Best regards,

J.Khumalo
RESPOND TO: josephkhumalo2003@yahoo.com





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