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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: John Decker Brook <charlesbouchard0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: johndecker@mail.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 08:07:59 +0100
Subject: Good Day

Good day,

I am John Decker Brook an employee of ING BANK branch here in
Netherlands.I have urgent and very confidential business proportion
for you.I got your contact from the World Trade Centre Online Web
directory here in Netherlands. In January 2010 a Consultant/Contractor
Made a numbered time (fixed deposited) for twelve calendar months
valued at (USD$8,500,000 million United States Dollars) in a
domiciliary account in my branch.

Upon maturity,I sent a routine notification of account statues to his
forwarding address but got no reply, after two months, we sent a
reminder of same letter and finally we discovered from his contact
mployers,Sofimation Oy,a Finland Company based in here in Netherlands
that Lewis Andrews Died in car accident.After further investigation,I
found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace next
of kin were fruitless.I therefore made further investigation and
discovered that he did not declare any Next of Kin in all his official
documents.

This sum of USD$8,500,000 is still floating in our bank and the
interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of
each year.No one would come forward to claim it,according to Dutch
Law,at the expiration of 7 (six) years;the money will revert to the
ownership of the Dutch government if nobody applies to claim these
funds. Consequent upon the above,my proposal is that I would like you
to stand in as the Next of Kin.

I will quickly work out the full documentation and change the name to
yours and transfer of the funds into your nominated account
anywhere.We shall discuss the percentage as soon as I hear from you.

Thanks,
John Decker Brook

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