joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Wang Wong Esq." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wang_wong_20000@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 14:36:15 -0700
Subject: Very Urgent !!!!!!

Ramsey Law Office,
Wang Wong Esq.
119 North Main Street,
Sebastopol, California 95472
12th February 2014.



First of all, I seek your indulgence to solicit for your assistance concerning the content of this message, although I am not comfortable discussing it through this manner due to lots of forged people on the internet presently, but I have no other medium to do so right now since here is the best place to contact any family easily.

I am Barrister Wang Wong, Under the Ramsey Law Office, I am a citizen of Hong Kong, and I work here in United States of America with late Thomas P. Johnson unfortunately Engineer Thomas P. Johnson was among the victim of the 2010 Hurricane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Earl_%282010%29 with his family.

He has US$2.5Million Dollars with Bank of America here before he died and for going to 4years now no trace as the bank has inform me to present his Next of kin as says on his will. My dear, I have all the paper works and with my legal right I will make you the next of kin and the bank will release the money to you. Let’s get to know each other, I promise to give you 30% of the total funds transferred to your vital bank account as compensation for your assistance especially the account you have bears this name Johnson.

Am so lucky that the bank officials who knew about the funds and my relationship with the decease, they are nice people and really want to help me and have kept the information of the funds strictly confidential and have advise me that if I cannot get any member of his family, I should source for good investor that will receive the funds on my behalf for investment to avoid any confiscation.

My dear, this is not a joke, I have all the paper works and with my legal right I will make you the next of kin and the bank will release the money to you. Let’s get to know each other, I promise 100% risk free and we shall have a good relationship, I will do my best and the funds will be release to you as Mr. Thomas Johnson’s relatives rather next of kin.

Please note that honesty is the watch word in this transaction. In case you don’t accept this offer please do not expose my mail. Be kind to get back to me, if you are not interested so that I can further my search for another partner.

Get back to me and I will give you more proofs of the business, get back to me on my email address: wangwong20000@live.com

Thanks for taking this offer and opportunity.

Barr Wang Wong Esq.
For: Principal Attorney

Anti-fraud resources: