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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. Paris Noble" <kingddsde@gmail.com>
Reply-To: nobleparis@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:22:10 +0100
Subject: call me

Dear sir/madam

REQUEST FOR YOUR BUSUNESS ASISTANCE

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I
know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the
day.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr. Paris
Noble, a Manager at the First Trust Bank PLC U-K, London. I came to know of
you in my private search for areliable and reputable person to handle a
very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of
money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. A foreigner, (Late
Engineer Johnson Pillars), an oil Merchant /contractor with the federal
Government here in London, until his death three years ago in a ghastly air
crash, banked with us here at the First Trust Bank PLC U-K, London, and had
a closing balance of USD$6M (Six Million United States Dollars) which the
bank nowunquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available
Relative or next of kin without that it will be Considered frozen.

Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the First Trust Bank to get in
touch with any of late Engr. Johnson Pillars next of kin (he had no known
wife and children) that the management and board of directors, are making
arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLIAMABLE " and then be
subsequently becomes First Trust Bank's money. In order to avert this
negative development, myself and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank
now seek for your permission to have you stand as late Engr.Johnson Pillars
next of kin so that the fund, USD$6M, would be subsequently transferred and
paid into your bank account as the beneficiary (Relative) next of kin.

All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully
worked out and we are assuring you 100% risk free involvement. Your share
would be 30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses,
while the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for purposes in your
country.

If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the
trust we hope to bestow on you, then kindly get to me immediately via my
e-mail address (nobleparis@yahoo.co.uk) furnishing me with your most
confidential telephone, fax and e-mail, so that I can forward to you the
relevant details of this transaction.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation

Regards.

Mr. Paris Noble
MANAGER First Trust Bank PLC London

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