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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: David Khumalo <dkhuma2@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: David Khumalo <dkhuma1@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:14:15 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: REPLY


 MR.DAVID KHUMALO.
#24 Ellwood Crescent,
Pretoria,South Africa.


I am Mr. David Khumalo, an auditor with African Development Bank (ADB). There was an account opened in this bank in 1980 and since 2001 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently, this funds will go down the drains, into the hands of either the board of directors of this bank or the funds may eventually be discovered by the government as a dormant fund in the forthcoming audit by the Nations auditors. They will confiscate or send it into the government's treasure. The question now is who is the government and where is the treasury? These are human beings like you and I. The owner of this account is DR.B.DREDO, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger gold co., a geologist by profession and he died in 2001. No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account. The amount involved is Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.
I am only contacting you, as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign account and foreign beneficiary because the money is in US dollars and the real owner of the account DR.B.DREDO, is a foreigner too.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner, who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you later, if you will be able to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this opportunity will never come again in our life.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
Yours Friendly,Mr. David Khumalo.

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