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: "Abram Petrov" <apetrov@kimo.com>
Reply-To: abrampetrov@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:58:59 -0300
Subject: Investment Placement

Sub: Financial Portfolio reinvestment/joint venture.

We are freelance financial consultant that represent clients that desires to invest asset portfolios into viable sector with high profit margin.

At the moment,we seek your understanding to secure and re-invest the financial portfolio of a deceased investor whom we assisted to invest his asset with a financial institution abroad since 2004, the source of fund originated from the sales of Crude Oil within Middle East and the Asian Region.

In 2014, the investor requested for his initial deposit/capital amounting to USD320Million with the Financial institution since the signed contract with the holding institution was for a duration of Ten Years(10yrs),the asset were eventually liquidated and thereafter he instructed the private bankers to transfer the initial capital and a portion of the accrued Return on Investment(ROI) in favor of a Shipping Company for the purchase of a Vessel, his request were executed according to his desire, hence the investor further instructed that the balance of the Return on Investment(ROI) totaling USD25.000.000.00 (Twenty Five Million United Dollars) should be reinvested for another 12 Months which the contract eventually elapsed/terminated Four(4) Months ago.

Just a few days ago, the asset managers (Financial Institution) got in touch with us to advise our principal to avail them with an account coordinates for the receipt of the funds (ROI) which has accrued an appreciation of 25% within the last 12Months, they complained that they have explored all available options at their disposal to get in touch with the investor without a success, On further inquiries we found out that the investor was involved in Bomb blast in Afghanistan which claimed his life, unfortunately he died intestate. Efforts have been made to trace his relative to no avail.

We have been notified by the financial institution (Asset Managers) to provide a next of kin to the deceased customers else the asset will be sent to their Apex Bank as unclaimed, as a result of these development we solicit your understanding to receive and investment the fund on our behalf while we agree to an MOU/CONTRACT in terms of benefits to all.

If our confidential terms are acceptable by you, l shall provide you more details to close the transaction bearing in mind that this will have no negative impact to all participant.

Please do advise on possible areas of investment available in your country with high yield returns, endeavor to provide an executive summary covering such proposal.

Anticipating your prompt communication with your full details and private contact number.

Regards,

Abram Petrov

Anti-fraud resources: