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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: "Mr Chris Stall" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <faisal@ryboahaima.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 23:33:50 +0200
Subject: *****SPAM***** Thursday, May 21, 2015

My name is Chris Stall, Barclays Bank EU Head of Equities Research. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with

you in the execution of the deal described here-under for our both mutual benefit and hope you will keep it a top secret

because of the nature of the transaction. During the course of our bank yearly auditing, I discovered an

unclaimed/abandoned fund, sum total of $15.000,000.00 USD (Fifteen Million United States Dollars) in an account that

belongs to one of our foreign customers same surname with you.

For 7 years now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that. I

personally has been unsuccessful in locating any of the relatives and nobody knows about this account. I sincerely seek

your consent to present you as the next of kin / beneficiary since you bear the same surname so that the proceeds of this account valued

at {USD $15,000,000.00} can be paid to you, which we will share in these percentages ratio, 50% to me and 50% to you.
Our Bank will pay this money to any person that has the correct information of the money, which I will give you all the
information about the money.

All that I require from you is your sincere co-operation; trust and utmost confidentiality to enable us conduct this

transaction successfully. I assure you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will

protect you from any breach of the law both in your country and here in London once the fund is transferred to your bank

account.Please note that we have few days to carry out this deal. This is 100% pure deal.

Thanking you in anticipation for your prompt response.

Warm Regards,

Chris

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