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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: "Dr Peter Tung Shun:" <relay.redstationmail.co.uk@goiei.com>
Reply-To: <leongbankauditormanager001@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 03:55:27 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION:

ATTN:Dear:
 
Hello dear, How are you and your family. My name is Dr Peter Tung Shun, I work with Hong Leong Bank as Auditor controller Manager at Sabah branch Malaysia. I hope that we can establish relationship and business partnership together. Actually,there is a personal financial transaction that I would want us to handle which will be profitable for both of us.
 
As the regional auditor manager of the Hong Leong Bank Malaysia, it is my obligation to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city (Kuala Lumpur ) at the end of every year. On the course of the last two years end of the year report 2012, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars [8, 500,000.00] which my head office is not aware of and will never be aware of it. I have since placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary but I discovered at last that it was an excess profit from our bank which nobody is aware of.
 
As an official of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this fund so I finally came in conclusion of contacting you for us to carry out the deal together so that you can assist me and receive this fund into your bank account for us to share. Meanwhile, you will have 50% of the total fund. Note that there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer.
 
All I desire from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account with my recommendation as officer in-charge. I will explain more to you as I wait to receive your reply soonest.
Best regards,
 
Dr Peter Tung Shun:

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