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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: "samuel" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <103000sam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:49:25 -0800
Subject: Dear Friend

Greetings to you Friend,
This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however, it's just for my urgent need for a foreign business partner that made me contact you in this manner, My name is Samuel Adjei, i am a banker by profession, I am the Auditor General here in our Bank, I am 52 years old and Married with 4 lovely kids, It may Interest you to hear that I am a man of peace.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the Auditor General, it is my duty to send in a Financial report to my head Office at the end of each business year. On the course of year 2013 business report, I discover a deposit in our auditing course and have an opportunity of transferring a left over funds ($ 10,850,000.00 USD) Ten Million, Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand United State Dollars belonging to a deceased client who died over here in car accident according to the reports.

Since he died, the bank have made every necessary effort to locate any of his family members but to no avail, that is why i contact you to have a deal with you because i am the late client account officer and can easily change all the account information and present you as next of kin which will authorize my bank to transfer the money to you in your account as the next of kin. As an Officer of the Bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist me to receive this money into your bank account as the next which i will pronounce you.

I am inviting you for a business deal where this money '$ 10.850 million' can be shared between us in the ratio 60/40, Note there are practically no risk involved now and in future, It will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is your honesty and as my foreign trustful beneficiary for you to equally not sidetrack me because the money will be transferred to you in your country abroad.

If you agree to my business proposal, Kindly get back to me for further discussion and more/full details.

Best Regards,
Samuel Adjei

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