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: "Mr.Peou Sann" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.peousann@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 03:54:54 -0700
Subject: Get Back To Me

Hello Dear,
 
 
My name is Mr.Peou Sann, a seasoned Banker with Foreign Trade Bank Cambodia. I am an account officer to a deceased customer of our bank, a national of your  country that shares the same last name as yours. This deceased client of mine, developed heart-attack on his business trip to Siemreab Cambodia and died on a painful motor accident after few months on his Hospital bed been 14th of November 2011. His heart condition was due to the death of all the members of his family in the tsunami disaster on the 26th December 2004 in Sumatra Indonesia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake during their holiday there and his account of US$32,890,000.00 Million Dollars with us has been unclaimed due to unavailability of a next of kin/relatives to claim his estate.
 
 
In accordance with the escheat laws in Cambodia as a kingdom, the board of directors of the Bank met forth night ago and resolved to turn the estate of the deceased over to Government having waited for too long without the deceased relatives/next of kin surfacing property and if this is done, invariably, the funds will end up to become Government property and it is as a result of this that am moved to contact you considering the fact that you share almost the same name with the deceased.
 
 
In view of this, am seeking your cooperation and understanding to stand as the deceased next of kin to enable us claim the inheritance before the period given by the Bank elapse. If you are interested and in agreement with me, get back to me quickly and I will send to you all our Bank contacts and the informations you may need to proceed without coming to Cambodia, and be rest assured that it is risk free project and the proceedings will be shared 50 once the fund are expatriated into your account anywhere in the world.
 
 
Please reply immediately with your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication and oral discution. I shall wait for days and if I do not hear from you, I will look for another person.
 
 
Wait your prompt response immediately.
 
 
Best Regards.
 
Mr.Peou Sann
Reply me here; mr.peousann@gmail.com

Anti-fraud resources: